Meyhöfer-Malik A

No ORCID on file · 7 papers in corpus · active 2000-2003

Study types

  • article 4
  • letter 1
  • other 1
  • review 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 6
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
  • die_deep_infiltrating 1
review 2003
Zentralblatt fur Gynakologie ·doi:10.1055/s-2003-42278

The pathogenesis of endometriosis is dependent on implantation. Therefore, angiogenesis of the ectopic endometrium is discussed as a crucial step in the development of an endometriotic lesion. It is not only the main condition for implantat…

article 2003
Reproductive biomedicine online ·doi:10.1016/s1472-6483(10)61716-6

According to the transplantation theory, endometriosis develops from endometrial fragments that are retrogradely menstruated into the peritoneal cavity. In order to develop into endometriotic lesions, they have to connect to the vascular sy…

letter 2001
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology ·doi:10.1067/mob.2001.112861
article 2001
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(01)02898-9

ObjectiveTo evaluate changes in expression levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) mRNA in human endometrial explants in a chicken chorioallantoic membrane model of endometriosis.DesignExperimental prospective study.SettingUnive…

article 2000
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/15.3.584

The chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) is a useful model for the fluorescence diagnosis of experimentally induced endometriosis. In our experimental setup 75.7% of the histologically examined tissue preparations were viable and only 24.3% showe…

other 2000
Surgical endoscopy ·doi:10.1007/s004640000160

BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of nonpigmented endometrial lesions by simple laparoscopic visualization is difficult and often inaccurate. We therefore sought to establish a new and more accurate method to visualize these nonpigmented peritoneal…

article 2000
Surgical endoscopy ·doi:10.1007/s004649900017

BackgroundAdhesions are believed to be one of the principal causes of chronic pelvic pain. Although there may be some discrepancy between the degree of adhesions and the severity of the symptoms, surgical adhesiolysis is still considered to…