Brosens IA

The current management of endometriosis includes expectant, medical, surgical and combined therapies and the selection is based on the staging of the disease proposed by the American Fertility Society (AFS). This approach, however, has prov…

Today's clinical challenge of endometriosis is to know when Its presence can be called a disease and therefore to decide when treatment is Indicated. The evolution of endometrkasls is presented as a cycle which can derail. Local pelvic fact…

OBJECTIVE: To describe the characteristics of the endometrial cyst and to locate the implants for selective biopsy. DESIGN: Prospective study. SUBJECTS: Fifty-one women with one or two ovarian chocolate cysts of 3 cm or more were investig…

ObjectiveTo evaluate changes in peritoneal endometriosis by the type of lesion in comparison with the scoring system of the revised American Fertility Society (AFS) classification.DesignProspective evaluation at laparoscopy before and 6 mon…

There are three major types of peritoneal endometriotic implant as distinguished by their laparoscopic and morphological characteristics; the microscopic or epithelial-type plaque, the vesicular and papular type and the fibrotic, nodular ty…

A long-term follow-up study of 92 patients with ovarian endometriosis treated with microsurgical techniques showed that although endometriosis may persist in many patients, only seven patients required repeat ovarian surgery. Microsurgical …

The histological and ultrastructural changes of ectopic endometrium were studied during treatment with dydrogesterone (Duphaston) in eighteen infertile patients with laparoscopically confirmed endometriosis. Three types of response to thera…

A clinicopathologic study of a short-term medical treatment of endometriosis with danazol or gestrinone was performed in 50 patients with endometriosis and infertility. The cellular response to the therapy was evaluated and graded according…

In 20 infertile patients, the laparoscopic, histologic, and ultrastructural characteristics of endometriotic implants were studied before and after a 2-month course of therapy using 1.25 mg of the antiprogesterone steroid ethylnorgestrienon…

In 36 patients with laparoscopically diagnosed endometriosis, biopsies were taken from different areas of the pelvic peritoneum bearing foci of endometriosis. The biopsies were studied by scanning electron microscopy and by light microscopy…

The luteinized unruptured follicle syndrome (LUF) exists and is cause of infertility. Although the data of the laparoscopic inspection of the ovaries and the corpora lutea and of steroid hormone concentrations in peritoneal fluid constitute…

Peritoneal fluid does not clot spontaneously on collection, due to a lack of prothrombin activation, consequent upon a virtual absence of factors V and VIII. Factor VIII related antigen is present in peritoneal fluid in only very small amou…

After ovulation, peritoneal fluid contains concentrations of progesterone and of 17 beta-estradiol that are 5 to 20 times higher than plasma concentrations in women with ovulatory cycles but not in women with unruptured luteinized follicles…

The volume of peritoneal fluid was measured after laparoscopic aspiration in 303 women. Contamination with blood was estimated at 4.2 per cent by haemoglobin assay. In 120 women with regular menstrual cycles, the volume of peritoneal fluid …

The authors have analyzed samples of peritoneal liquid to determine how and in which measure the level of steroid hormones allows to distinguish between follicular rupture and ovulation, and follicular luteinization without rupture and lack…

Thirty-four infertile patients with regular cycles and endometriosis were studied and compared to a control group of 28 women. The endometriosis was classified as mild (n = 16), moderate (n = 9) and severe (n = 9) according to Acosta et al …