Steven R Lindheim

OBJECTIVE: To identify cervical stenosis and review medical, surgical, and radiological modalities to access the uterine cavity. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Computerized searches of Medline and PubMed from 1996 to 2005 were conducted using the …

Endometriosis is a disease that has always been thought to almost exclusively affect women of reproductive age. It often presents with an array of clinical symptoms, including pain, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, cyclic pain, abnormal uterine b…

The medical treatment of endometriosis has long centered upon producing a hypoestrogenic environment by producing pituitary suppression or a progestin-dominant environment. However, as more is uncovered regarding the pathogenesis and pathop…

Endometriosis often presents with an array of clinical symptoms, including non-cyclic pain, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, abnormal uterine bleeding, and infertility (Table 11.1). Nearly 15% of American women between the ages of 18 and 50 suffe…

Endometriosis and infertility have been linked in the discipline of gynecology for more than a century. There is evidence that endometriosis can and does decrease fertility. However, our ability to determine fertility prognosis based on a s…

Chronic pelvic pain has a prevalence of 15% to 30% of reproductive-age women. It causes a sizable minority of all gynecological visits, and is responsible for much physical and psychological suffering. Although laparoscopic inspection, plus…

PURPOSE: A procedure using transvaginal sonohysterography (SHG) to perform operative intrauterine biopsies and resections is described. METHODS: Seven women, six with intrauterine pathology noted on diagnostic SHG and one with a thickened …