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AIM: The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of women under 25 years with pelvic endometriosis and assess their potential for recurrence and fertility after surgery. METHODS: In a comparative retrospective study, 108 patie…

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a specific anticancer treatment that received significant interest in several medical and surgical disciplines. The technique is based on (i) the application of the photosensitizer that accumulates in a variabl…

The authors describe a case report of a tubal choriocarcinoma occurring in women of 32 years old, 2 years after her last pregnancy. The patient was treated by laparoscopic salpingectomy and polychemotherapy. Metastatic pulmonary micronodule…

Relationship between infertility and endometriosis is still controversial. Many mechanisms have been reported such as anatomical disorders, biologic and cytological modifications of peritoneal liquid, functional ovarian and endometrial diso…

Endometriosis of the urinary tract (bladder and/or ureter) is rare and concerns 1-2% of cases of endometriosis. Surgical management is usually mandatory. Rate of peri operative morbidity is low. There is a risk of functional (dysuria, chron…

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the clinical features, staging by medical imaging, treatment strategy and results of surgical management of deep pelvic endometriosis with bladder and/or ureteric involvement. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Eighteen cases of…

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to determine the symptoms of bladder and ureteral endometriosis and to review the treatment approaches. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted a retrospective studyover the period November 1989-July 2000.…

Endometriosis is characterised by the presence of abnormally located tissue resembling the endometrium with glands and stroma. Several hypotheses have attempted to explain the development of such tissue. The oldest theory, that of metaplasi…

Endometriosis is characterised by the presence of abnormally located tissue resembling the endometrium with glands and stroma. Several hypotheses have attempted to explain the development of such tissue. The most often cited theory, that of…

Endometriosis is characterised by the presence in abnormal situation of a tissue resembling the endometrium with glands and stroma. Several assumptions try to explain the development of this tissue. The oldest, the theory of the metaplasia,…

The immune system probably plays a role in the onset and development of endometriosis. A general picture can be proposed. In some women refluxing endometrial cells are not destroyed, either because the patient is genetically programmed not …

Endometriosis is thought to result from implantation of endometrial tissue swept back into the pelvic cavity during menstruation, or from coelomic metaplasia of the peritoneum. Yet not all women with menstrual reflux develop endometriosis. …