Robert S. Schenken

No ORCID on file · 89 papers in corpus · active 1978-2024

Study types

  • article 75
  • review 5
  • other 4
  • letter 2
  • editorial 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 52
  • infertility 6
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
  • endometrioma 1
letter 2003
Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation ·doi:10.1016/s1071-5576(03)00026-1
review 2003
Human fertility (Cambridge, England) ·doi:10.1080/1464770312331368973

Proliferative, secretory and menstrual endometrial cells of both the stroma and epithelium adhere to intact peritoneal mesothelium and mesothelial monolayers. Endometrial attachment to the mesothelium appears to occur rapidly (within 1 h) a…

other 2003
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(02)04834-3

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate endometrial adhesion and invasion of peritoneal mesothelium. DESIGN: Descriptive study using confocal laser-scanning microscopy. SETTING: University-based laboratory. PATIENT(S): Women undergoing surgery for benign…

article 2002
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb02790.x

OBJECTIVE: To determine if whole fragments of endometrium can adhere to peritoneum with intact mesothelium. DESIGN: Tissue culture and immunohistochemical study. SETTING: University Medical Center. PATIENTS: Reproductive-age women undergoin…

article 2002
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(02)03978-x
article 2002
·doi:10.1093/humrep/17.11.2832

BACKGROUND: To evaluate adhesion of menstrual endometrium (ME) to intact peritoneal mesothelium. METHODS: Explants of peritoneum were cultured for 1 h with ME (n = 6). Specimens were serially sectioned for haematoxylin and eosin stain and i…

article 2002
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(02)04047-5
article 2002
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(02)03340-x
article 2001
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(01)01883-0
article 2001
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(01)01995-1
article 2001
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(00)01699-x
article 2000
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(00)00701-9
article 2000
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(00)00778-0
article 1999
·doi:10.1097/00003081-199909000-00012
review 1999
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(99)00014-x
review 1999
Clinical obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1097/00003081-199909000-00014

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas Correspondence: Willam N. Burns, MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, …

article 1999
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(98)00400-2
review 1997
Seminars in reproductive endocrinology ·doi:10.1055/s-2008-1068749

There are many hypotheses concerning the pathogenesis of endometriosis, though no single theory can explain all cases. It is likely that several mechanisms are involved. Early studies concentrated on the histogenesis of the endometriotic le…

article 1997
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(97)81392-1
editorial 1997
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(97)81390-8
article 1994
American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) ·doi:10.1111/j.1600-0897.1994.tb01110.x

PROBLEM: Numerous studies have characterized the lymphocyte subpopulations in normal eutopic endometrium and suggested a role for the cytokine secretory products of these lymphocytes in regulating endometrial cell proliferation and differen…

article 1994
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1994.tb21762.x

OBJECTIVE: This study was designed (1) to characterize the resident leukocyte population in ectopic endometrium (EE), (2) to assess proliferative activity of cellular components in EE, (3) to assess whether resident leukocytes in EE express…

article 1993
American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) ·doi:10.1111/j.1600-0897.1993.tb00605.x

PROBLEM: Previous studies have shown that the endometrial epithelial/stromal cell proliferative activity of endometriosis is significantly less than that of normal endometrium and that the concentration of resident stromal leukocytes is sig…

article 1993
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)55881-6
article 1992
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)54845-6