Consideration of symptoms reveals serious shortcomings in pathology-based classifications of endometriosis. Premenstrual spotting may be associated with the underlying physiologic or biochemical disturbance. Once the biochemical basis for s…
SummaryEndometriosis essentially consists of patches of endometrioid differentiation of the pelvic mesenchyme. Endometriotic tissue is, like the endometrium itself, dependent on ovarian steroid hormones for support. Endometriosis, like endo…
A randomized and double-blind trial was carried out comparing intranasal nafarelin acetate (400 micrograms daily) and oral danazol (600 mg daily), given over 6 months, in the treatment of 49 patients with laparoscopically proven endometrios…
We describe the morphologic characteristics and clinical importance of peritoneal lesions that have the histologic features of endometriosis but are devoid of the pigmented stigmas typical of this disease. A total of 137 laparoscopic biopsy…
An examination was made of the possibility that 100 to 200 ml of intraperitoneal 32% dextran 70 and/or 0.5% hydrocortisone sodium succinate (randomized independently with similar volumes of Ringer's lactate solution) might help to lessen th…