Michelle Nisolle

Over the last ten years, progress in evidence-based medicine coupled with technological and surgical breakthroughs have deeply changed the management of our patients. Uterine bleeding is the first cause of gynaecological consultation and th…

The transplantation theory, proposed by Sampson in 1927, involves the dissemination of viable epithelial and stromal endometrial cells via the fallopian tubes into the abdominal cavity and the implantation of these cells into the peritoneum…

Journal de Gynecologie Obstetrique et Biologie de la Reproduction - Vol. 32 - N° 8-C2 - p. 11-14

This review summarizes the recent literature concerning new data on the pathogenesis of peritoneal endometriosis and its natural evolution. Indeed, the main concern in endometriosis is the choice of treatment in cases of infertility problem…

This review discusses the efcacy of a combined, medical (GnRH agonist) and surgical, therapy in endometriosisassociated infertility. Because of the limited information currently available on the activity of lesions in minimal and mild endom…

OBJECTIVE: To present data from 18 cases of ureteral endometriosis. DESIGN: Prospective clinical study. SETTING: Department of gynecology at a university hospital. PATIENT(S): Four hundred and five patients with severe dysmenorrhea or de…

The concept that peritoneal endometriosis, ovarian endometriosis and adenomyotic nodules of the rectovaginal septum are three different entities has been clearly demonstrated by Nisolle & Donnez in 1997. In other words, peritoneal and ovari…

Objective To evaluate the prevalence of ureteral endometriosis and to describe the laparoscopic surgery. Design This is a prospective study. Results In a series of 306 patients with rectovaginal adenomyotic nodules, preoperative intravenous…

The objective of this study was to analyse the histological and immunohistochemical characteristics of cultured explants of human endometrium transplanted into nude mice. Biopsies of eutopic endometrium were taken from six patients during l…

Various non-hysteroscopic procedures have been developed in the attempt to treat dysfunctional uterine bleeding that fails to respond to medical treatment efficiently and easily. Among these procedures is low-dose laser radiation of the end…

Objective: Laparoscopic procedure with excision of deep fibrotic\nendometriotic nodules of the rectovaginal septum and histological\nstudy of the lesions. \nSetting:\nAn academic teaching hospital.\nPatients: A series of 500 patients underw…

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