Nezhat F

Background/Objectives: Fallopian tube endometriosis is frequently underreported due to its nonspecific presentation, limitations in imaging detection, and the fact that histologic diagnosis often requires the submission of the entire fallop…

Background/Objectives: Endometriosis is a chronic, inflammatory, estrogen-dependent disease that has historically been underdiagnosed, especially in patients with unexplained infertility. On average, diagnosis is delayed by 11 years, unders…

Background: Current endometriosis classification systems have important limitations in accurately describing total disease burden and predicting clinical outcomes. Existing staging frameworks often fail to integrate adenomyosis and do not a…

Few scenarios in gynecologic surgery test clinical judgment more than the evaluation of an adnexal mass suspicious for malignancy. Nowhere is this challenge more pronounced than in patients with endometriosis, a disease that is at once comm…

Uterine fibroid is one of the most common benign uterine diseases, affecting up to 70-80% of females of reproductive age. Whilst abdominal myomectomy has traditionally been a major uterine-sparing surgical intervention for its management, t…

Bowel endometriosis is a complex condition predominantly impacting women in their reproductive years, which may lead to chronic pain, gastrointestinal symptoms, and infertility. This review highlights current approaches to the diagnosis and…

Background/Objectives: Endometriosis is a chronic gynecological disorder affecting up to 10% of women of reproductive age. The etiology of endometriosis remains unclear; however, there is growing interest in identifying modifiable risk fact…

BACKGROUND: The increasing number of organ transplant recipients has led to a rise in cancer diagnoses in this population. Kidney transplant recipients, in particular, have a two-to-four-fold higher risk of developing cancer due to immunosu…

OBJECTIVE: The use of energy during minimally invasive surgery is associated with thermal damage that can affect the process of wound healing. METHODS: This was a randomized clinical trial including 78 women who underwent total laparoscopi…

Cesarean scar defect, also known as niche, isthmocele, uteroperitoneal fistula and uterine diverticulum, is a known complication after cesarean delivery. Due to the rising cesarean delivery rates, niche has become more common and can presen…

ObjectiveTo determine the incidence of fallopian tube endometriosis in patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery with a preoperative diagnosis of endometriosis, pelvic pain, infertility, or cystic adnexal mass.DesignRetrospective cross-secti…

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a widely known benign disease, but 0.5%-1% of cases are associated with malignancy. It has been linked with ovarian neoplasms, particularly endometrioid and clear cell adenocarcinoma histology. Rhabdomyosarcomas…

The most common location of extragenital endometriosis is the bowel. Medical treatment may not provide long-term improvement in patients who are symptomatic, and consequently most of these patients may require surgical intervention. Over th…

Background and objectivesThe inadvertent dissemination of uterine cancer cells with the power morcellator has received much attention in the press and a warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Many hospitals prohibit the use of …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The relationship between leiomyoma and endometriosis is poorly understood. Both contribute to considerable pain and may cause subfertility or infertility in women. We conducted this retrospective study to assess t…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery involves the introduction of instruments through a natural orifice into the peritoneal cavity to perform diagnostic and therapeutic surgical interventions. We report…

ObjectiveTo present a case of successful laparoscopic resection of adrenal endometriosis.DesignCase report.SettingUniversity Hospital.Patient(s)Forty-eight-year-old woman with left-sided abdominal and flank pain.Intervention(s)Laparoscopic …

This article reveals our surgical approach for treatment of a patient with severe pelvic and infiltrative bladder endometriosis with mucosal involvement using robotic-assisted laparoscopic excision and cystotomy repair. To our knowledge, th…

ObjectiveTo review the malignant potential of endometriosis based on epidemiologic, histopathologic, and molecular data.DesignLiterature review.Result(s)The pathogenesis of endometriosis remains unclear. The histopathologic development of e…