Charles Chapron

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of assisted reproduction technology (ART) on painful symptoms and quality of life (QoL) in women who have endometriosis as compared with disease-free women. DESIGN: Prospective controlled, observational co…

STUDY QUESTION: Is there an association between the endometriosis phenotype and presentation with infertility? SUMMARY ANSWER: In a population of operated patients with histologically proven endometriosis, ovarian endometrioma (OMA) per se …

INTRODUCTION: The present study aimed to investigate clinical, lifestyle, and environmental factors associated with endometrioma (OMA) and/or deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) as determined by case-control comparison [women with superfi…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To analyze whether a history of uterine surgery correlates with disease severity in patients with bladder deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE). DESIGN: This was an observational, cross-sectional study using data collected…

STUDY QUESTION: Were spontaneous miscarriages more frequent in women with histologically proven endometriosis when compared with endometriosis-free controls? SUMMARY ANSWER: Endometriosis-affected women display a significantly higher rate …

The ef®ciency of medical therapy as a unique treatment for endometrioma has not been demonstrated. Operative laparoscopic management is the `gold standard ' for surgical treatment, and there are no indications to prescribe medical trea…

Surgery for bladder endometriosis: long-term results and concomitant management of associated posterior deep lesions

study question: Are interleukin-33 (IL-33) serum levels higher in women with uterine leiomyoma compared with controls without leiomyoma? summaryanswer: Serum IL-33 is elevated inwomenwith uterine leiomyoma and correlatedwith features of ute…

To prospectively assess the accuracy of magnetic resonance (MR) enterography in preoperative screening of deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) for the diagnosis of right DIE lesions located in the ileocaecal junction and recto sigmoid junc…

Endometriosis is a gynecologic disease affecting up to 10% of the women and a major cause of pain and infertility. It is characterized by the implantation of functional endometrial tissue at ectopic positions generally within the peritoneum…

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Copyright © 2014 Bruno Borghese et al.This is an open access article distributed under theCreativeCommonsAttribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is proper…

Copyright © 2015 Bruno Borghese et al.This is an open access article distributed under theCreative CommonsAttribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is prope…

The influence of intrauterine environment on the risk of endometriosis is still controversial. Whether birth weight modifies the risk of endometriosis in adulthood remains an open ques-tion. For this purpose, we designed a case-control stud…

Endometriosis is a benign gynecologic disease, affecting women of reproductive age associated with chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia and infertility. Ovarian endometrioma (OMA), superficial peritoneal endometriosis (SPE), and d…

OBJECTIVE: To study possible associations among endometriosis, pelvic infectious disease, and ART. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort analysis over 4 consecutive years, based on medical records and insurance coding in a tertiary endometriosis re…

OBJECTIVE: Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are involved in the proliferation and survival of endometriotic lesions. Vemurafenib (PLX4032) is a novel protein kinase inhibitor that targets BRAF, a member of the MAPK pathway. The pre…