Xiaowen Tong

While the link between female reproductive function and cardiovascular health (CVH) is well-established, the association between pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and CVH remains largely unexplored. This study, therefore, sets out to fill t…

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a common gynecological disease among women in their reproductive years. Although much effort has been made, the pathogenesis of this disease and the detailed differences between eutopic endometrial cells and ect…

Objective(s)To establish an experimental bowel endometriosis model in the rat and to investigate regional lymph node involvement.Study designTwenty Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to autologous transplantation of endometrial tissue to th…

Endometriosis and adenomyosis uteri are chronic, benign diseases caused by the presence of endometrial tissue in ectopic locations, e.g. peritoneal or deep inside the myometrial wall of the uterus and/or in the rectovaginal septum. Although…