C L Schmidt

The enigmatic disease of endometriosis continues to baffle both the scientist and the clinician. An encompassing theory of pathogenesis has failed to emerge from contemporary understanding of the immunologic manifestations, the hormonal abe…

Although endometriotic cysts are common, the occurrence of infection in these lesions has not been reported. Of 510 consecutive endometriotic cysts diagnosed at New York University Medical Center between 1965 and 1979, eleven had pathologic…