Uri P. Dior

Endometriosis is a common disease, not uncommonly debilitating with severe negative impact on all domains of life for women. The long-standing approach is that endometriosis is one of many gynecological benign conditions. Nevertheless, ther…

Study objectiveTo investigate the incidence of new diagnosis of endometriosis in women at or above the age of 40 who present with previously undiagnosed pelvic pain and no previous surgical or sonographic evidence of endometriosis to a tert…

Research questionDoes obesity affect endometrial gene expression in women with endometriosis, specifically women with stage I disease?DesignDifferential gene expression analysis was conducted on endometrium from women with and without endom…

STUDY QUESTION: Do menstrual cycle-dependent changes occur in the histological appearance of superficial peritoneal endometriotic lesions, and are they equivalent to those observed in the eutopic endometrium? SUMMARY ANSWER: Only a small su…

Introduction and hypothesisChronic pelvic pain is a debilitating condition, and establishing both an etiology and a successful management plan is challenging. Bladder pain syndrome (BPS) is one such etiology, with some studies reporting a p…

Study objectiveTo examine the surgical management and outcomes of patients treated laparoscopically for pelvic pain following ovary-sparing hysterectomy.DesignRetrospective cohort study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).SettingGener…

Introduction: There is a well-established inverse relationship between body mass index and frequency of endometriosis. However, these population-based studies have relied mostly on self-reported cases of endometriosis, rather than surgicall…

Study objectiveTo examine the presence of sonographic evidence of adenomyosis (SEOA) in patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery for the investigation of endometriosis and to assess if there is an association between SEOA and endometriosis …