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The principal symptoms and signs of endometriosis are tissue lesions and pelvic pain. These occur to varying degrees, with a chronic pattern and a tendency for deterioration with time. Patients with endometriosis often also have fertility p…

Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of functional endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity, most commonly on the ovary and peritoneum. The aetiology of endometriosis is not understood, although the adhesion of endometrial ce…

ObjectiveTo compare the effect of a GnRH-agonist, triptorelin, versus placebo on the symptoms of endometriosis.DesignA prospective, randomized, double-blind study of 6 months of treatment followed by 12 months of follow-up.SettingDepartment…

ObjectiveTo determine whether there is a difference in fibrinolytic compounds in endometriotic tissue, endometrium, peritoneal fluid (PF), and plasma from women with endometriosis and in endometrium and PF from healthy women.DesignProspecti…

PurposeThe aim of this retrospective study was to compare the outcome of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer in women with endometriosis and a control group with tubal-factor infertility.MethodsForty-eight patients with endometriosis…

The objective of this study was to compare the efficacy of nafarelin 200 micrograms (Group A), nafarelin 400 micrograms (Group B) and the combination of nafarelin 200 micrograms and norethisterone 1.2 mg (Group C) daily, in treating symptom…

ObjectivesOur goal was to determine the risk of cancer after hospitalization for endometriosis.Study designRecords of 20,686 women hospitalized with endometriosis during the period 1969 to 1983, as identified through the nationwide Swedish …

Previous data have indicated that prostaglandins (PG) play an important role in the ovulation process and significant quantities have been found in follicular fluid. The synthesis of PG is influenced by ovarian steroids as well as inflammat…

BACKGROUND: The capacity of different tissues to respond to steroids has been evaluated mainly according to the concentrations of oestrogen (ER) and progesterone (PR) receptors, which may be assayed either in tissue homogenates or histochem…

OBJECTIVE: To assay the cathepsin D level in endometriotic tissue, to study the difference to uterine endometrium and the correlation to localization. DESIGN: Prospective consecutive study on endometriotic tissue and endometrium. SETTING: U…

The expression of integrin subunits has been investigated in the stroma and epithelium of eutopic and ectopic endometrial tissues, using immunohistochemistry and fluorescently activated cell-sorting techniques. Integrin subunits exhibited t…

Endometriotic tissue sometimes shows an invasive pattern, but the growth regulation of the tissue is insufficiently characterized. In a research programme on factors regulating endometriotic growth, the DNA ploidy status and S-phase fractio…

Journal Article The relationship between endometriotic lesions and the disease endometriosis Get access Agneta Bergqvist Agneta Bergqvist Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Huddinge University HospitalS-141 86 Huddinge, Sweden Search …

Endometriotic growth may appear in any structure in the body. As well as affecting the internal genitalia, lesions are not uncommon in the bowel, urinary tract and thorax and reports of a number of cases at rarer sites have been published. …

The objective of the study was to compare the localization and staining intensity of oestrogen and progesterone receptors in endometrium and endometriotic tissue. Using monoclonal antibodies towards oestrogen and progesterone receptors, ana…

OBJECTIVE: To study the hormonal regulation of primary and recurrent endometriosis by comparing the levels of estrogen receptors (ER) and progesterone receptors (PR) with the levels in uterine endometrium obtained simultaneously. DESIGN: Ti…

The levels of oestrogen and progesterone receptors were analysed in 62 endometriotic tissue samples obtained at laparotomy of 58 women and in samples of endometrium obtained simultaneously from 49 of the women. Both ligand techniques and en…

Extragenital endometriosis is common and may be found in any tissue. The most pronounced symptoms are pain and local bleeding that usually (at least initially) are cyclical and more pronounced at the time of menstruation. The lesions often …

The metabolism of [3H]estrone sulfate (E1S) into [3H]estrone (E1) and [3H]estradiol-17 beta (E2) was studied in samples of endometriotic tissue and uterine endometrium obtained simultaneously from 13 patients, 7 in the proliferative and 5 i…

Sciatic pain in a young woman was not relieved by orthopedic treatment. The gynecologist found a large hard tumor-like mass in the uterosacral ligament extending to the pelvic wall. Cytologic examination of fine needle aspirate indicated an…

A comparative histochemical study was performed on endometriotic tissue and uterine endometrium obtained simultaneously from the same patient. No difference in the amount and distribution of glycogen and acid and neutral polysaccharides was…

Estrogen and progesterone binding to endometriotic and endometrial tissue was studied histochemically using estradiol and progesterone fluorochrome derivatives (E2-bovine serum albumin-fluorescein isothiocyanate and progesterone-bovine seru…