Chérif Akladios

OBJECTIVES: Women seeking sterilization are usually parous and have no major complains, such as pelvic pain. This could be a good model to indirectly assess the prevalence of endometriosis in the general population. Prevalence of endometrio…

UNLABELLED: The objective of this review was to assess the level of risk of breast cancer of patients consulting for infertility. METHODS: Studies of cohorts and case-control were extracted from the Pubmed database from January 2000 until …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate and compare medium-term clinical outcomes and recurrence rates in the laparoscopic surgical management of bowel endometriosis comparing 3 different surgical techniques (shaving, discoid, and segmental resection). DES…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To report the clinical presentation and long-term issues of adolescent endometriosis. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Single private clinical center, Bordeaux, France. PATIENTS: Adolescents with a confirmed …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of laparoscopic excision of lesions on deep endometriosis-related infertility. DESIGN: Retrospective study. SETTING: Endometriosis tertiary referral center (Canadian Task Force II-2). PATIENTS: A g…

OBJECTIVE: To verify the hypothesis that in most patients bowel segmental resection to treat endometriosis can be safely performed without creation of a stoma and to discuss the limitations of this statement. DESIGN: Retrospective study (C…

The objective of this retrospective study was to evaluate the feasibility of natural orifice specimen extraction (NOSE) techniques in 41 patients undergoing bowel resection for treatment of deep infiltrating endometriosis. In all patients l…

A recent study indicated that left-handed women have more than twice the risk of developing breast cancer before reaching the menopause than right-handed women 1. As a potential explanation, the authors suggest the existence of a prenatal i…