Endometriosis (MIM 131200) is a prevalent and complex gynecological disease polygenically inherited with multifactorial pathogenesis. It is increasingly recognized as a major women's health issue. ...
Endometriosis (MIM 131200) is a prevalent and complex gynecological disease polygenically inherited with multifactorial pathogenesis. It is increasingly recognized as a major women's health issue. Endometriosis is characterized by the prese…
BACKGROUND: Successful surgical treatment of deep bowel endometriosis depends on obtaining detailed information about the lesions, prior to the procedure. The objective of this study was to determine the capability of transvaginal ultrasono…
A endometriose é uma doença caracterizada pelo implante ectópico de estroma e/ou epitélio glandular endometrial em localização extra-uterina que acomete 15% das mulheres em idade reprodutiva, podendo se manifestar em focos superficiais peri…
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Endometriosis is a common affl iction that may affect the intestinal tract. The objective of this case report was to describe an unusual clinical presentation of this form of the disease. CASE REPORT: The patient was …
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To estimate the relationship between the depth of lesions of rectal endometriosis and the percentage of the circumference of the bowel segment affected by the disease. DESIGN: A prospective pathologic analysis of 45 surgic…
OBJECTIVE: To verify whether bladder and ureter endometriosis had the same clinical features and disease behavior. DESIGN: Case-control study. SETTING: Multidisciplinary group in Sao Paulo, Brazil. PATIENT(S): A total of 690 patients wer…
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Endometriosis is a common affliction that may affect the intestinal tract. The objective of this case report was to describe an unusual clinical presentation of this form of the disease. CASE REPORT: The patient was …
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate interleukin (IL)-12 and IL-18 levels in the serum and peritoneal fluid of women with and without endometriosis. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: University hospital. PATIENTS: Interleukin-12 and IL-18 level…
Deeply infiltrating endometriosis is the clinical form of the disease that is generally associated with conditions of more intense pain and may require more complex surgical management, consequently resulting in greater risks to the patient…
OBJETIVO: avaliar o padrão de diferenciação histológica em lesões de peritônio superficial e lesões de endometriose pélvica profunda (EPP), localizadas em ligamentos úteros-sacros, intestino (reto e sigmóide) e septo retovaginal. MÉTODOS: e…
Neste estudo, quarenta pacientes selecionadas com endometriose pélvica e utilizando do método videolaparoscópico de corrida dos órgãos peritoneais na endometriose (COPE), puderam verificar se suas queixas encontram-se correlacionadas aos ac…
ABSTRACT : The peritoneal organs of 40 patients with pelvic endometriosis were scanned for endometriosis in this study bythe videolaparoscopic method to verify the relation of their complaints with lesions found in the gastrointestinal trac…
OBJECTIVE: To analyze vascular density and immunolocalization of angiogenic vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its receptor Flk-1 in the proliferative and secretory eutopic human endometrium and in three different sites of endome…