OBJECTIVE: To describe clinical and epidemiological aspects of patients with pelvic endometriosis who underwent laparoscopy at our service. METHODS: Retrospective study of 892 post-laparoscopy patients with histologically confirmed diagnos…
When performing oophorectomy, ureteral injury or occlusion can occur in this area during ligation or coagulation of the infundibulopelvic ligament. All the discussed dissection techniques are safely used in this area to the surgeon’s great …
Laparoscopic colorectal surgery is believed to be technically and oncologically feasible. Robotic surgery is an attractive mode in performing minimally-invasive surgery once it has several advantages if compared to standard laparoscopic sur…
OBJECTIVE: This study analyzed the relationship between clinical characteristics of endometriosis and Th1/Th2 immune response patterns. METHODS: A prospective study was performed with 65 patients with endometriosis (Group A) and 33 without…
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the accuracy of preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings relative to surgical presence of deeply infiltrating endometriosis (DIE). METHODS: This prospective study included 92 women with clinical suspici…
Endometriosis is generally assumed to be a benign disease, but it is estimated that 1% of cases are associated with cancer, especially when both conditions are present in the ovary. Extra-ovarian lesions in the rectovaginal septum, colon, b…
A endometriose uma doena ginecolgica benigna que acomete mulheres em idade reprodutiva e se manifesta sob a forma de dor plvica crnica, dismenorria e infertilidade.A associao de endometriose e infertilidade tem sido reconhecida h anos, embo…
In patients with endometriosis of the appendix, other sites are use to be affected by the disease, mainly bladder, rectosigmoid and retrocervical endometriosis. When these characteristics are present or if patients have more than three site…
BACKGROUND: Follistatin is an activin-binding protein produced by several tissues, including endometrium and endometriotic implants. We aimed to quantify follistatin in patients with ovarian endometriosis and investigate its value as a diag…
In this retrospective observational study involving 176 patients and 271 biopsies, the histologic differentiation in superficial endometriosis, deeply infiltrating endometriosis, and ovarian endometriomas was evaluated according to a previo…