Extensive adenomyosis (adenomyosis) or its variance, localized adenomyosis (adenomyoma) of the uterus, is often described as scattered, widely-distributed endometrial glands or stromal tissue found throughout the myometrium layer of the ute…
Ascites is a pathologic accumulation of fluid within the peritoneal cavity, and usually develops as a result of liver disease, congestive heart failure or nephrotic syndrome. Ascites is also a common manifestation of some gynecologic diseas…
AIM: Our aim was to assess the role of surgical intervention for symptom control and reproductive performance improvement in the management of subfertile women with symptomatic extensive uterine adenomyosis. METHODS: Sixty-five subfertile w…
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of nafarelin, a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogue, versus danazol in the treatment of women with endometriosis in Taiwan. METHODS: Fifty-nine women w…
ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to examine if COX-2, CK7 and CK20 are involved in the malignant transformation of endometriosis.MethodsWe compared COX-2, CK7 and CK20 expressions between isolated endometriosis lesions and endometrio…
BACKGROUND: Wound endometriosis is still a rare phenomenon. In this study, we tried to identify its risk factors and presented our experience in managing such disease. METHODS: We studied twenty-three women with pathologically confirmed wou…
OBJECTIVE: To use comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) to analyzefrozen tissuesfrom adenomyosis cases to discover and map genomic regions for chromosomal gains and losses. STUDY DESIGN: In a retrospective study, upper and lower threshol…
Laparoscopic bipolar coagulation of uterine vessels (LBCUV) is reported to treat clinically symptomatic myomas that caused severe menorrhagia, but the viability of pregnancy after operation is unknown. A woman with clinically diagnosed uter…
BACKGROUND: Elevated level of serum CA-125 was detected in a 48-year-old woman who was diagnosed with a lateral fusion defect in association with congenital agenesis of the uterine cervix. This unusual case combined two developmental anomal…