Maria Spyrou

BACKGROUND/AIM: Endometriosis is a gynecological estrogen-dependent inflammatory disease due to ectopic endometrial tissue and often associated with pelvic pain. Despite its high prevalence, there are still uncertainties about its pathogene…

OBJECTIVE: The pathogenesis of endometriosis is still mysterious, being retrograde menstruation and coelomic metaplasia the most accepted hypotheses. Recently, it has been proposed that endometriosis is caused by fine-tuning alterations of …

Endometriosis is a common benign pathology, characterised by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the endometrial cavity with a prevalence of 10-15% in reproductive-aged women. The pathogenesis is not completely understood, and severa…