Becker, CM

About 10% of reproductive-age women have endometriosis. Symptoms can include severe pain, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, dysuria, infertility, and fatigue. The pathogenesis is unclear. Hormonal therapy controls symptoms in some women; others re…

STUDY QUESTION\nHow should surgery for endometriosis be performed?\n\nSUMMARY ANSWER\nThis document provides recommendations covering technical aspects of different methods of surgery for deep endometriosis in women of reproductive age.\n\n…

Objective: To quantify the variation, triggers and impact on quality of life of symptom flares in women with chronic pelvic pain (CPP). Design: Cross-sectional questionnaire within the Translational Research in Pelvic Pain clinical cohort …

目的 研究子宫内膜异位症发病的相关因素及其在中国和英国患者之间可能的差异。方法 采用病例对照研究方法，选取英国牛津John Radcliffe Hospital收治的子宫内膜异位症患者387例和非子宫内膜异位症患者199例、广州中医药大学第一附属医院收治的子宫内膜异位症患者101例和非子宫内膜异位症患者50例分别为病例组和对照组。通过标准化的WERF EPHect调查问卷，收集4组人群的身高、体质量、体质量指数、婚姻状况、工作状况、月经情况、生育情况、手术原因等临床资料并进行…

The authors reply: The mainstay of current medical therapy for endometriosis is hormonebased and is thus predominantly contraceptive and nonteratogenic.Given that most cases of endometriosis occur during the reproductive years, the expected…

STUDY QUESTION: How should surgery for endometriosis be performed? SUMMARY ANSWER: This document provides recommendations covering technical aspects of different methods of surgery for deep endometriosis in women of reproductive age. WHAT I…

Study question: How should surgery for endometriosis be performed? \n/ \nSummary answer: This document provides recommendations covering technical aspects of different methods of surgery for deep endometriosis in women of reproductive age. …

Endometriosis is a common inflammatory disease characterized by the presence of tissue outside the uterus that resembles endometrium, mainly on pelvic organs and tissues. It affects ~5–10% of women in their reproductive years — translating …

The 3rd International Consensus Workshop on Research Priorities in Endometriosis was held in São Paulo on May 4, 2014, following the 12th World Congress on Endometriosis. The workshop was attended by 60 participants from 19 countries and wa…

OBJECTIVE: To standardize the recording of surgical phenotypic information on endometriosis and related sample collections obtained at laparoscopy, allowing large-scale collaborative research into the condition. DESIGN: An international col…

Endometriosis, the presence of ectopic endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity, is a common disease affecting women during their reproductive years. Current therapeutic success is often unsatisfactory because of limited insight into d…

Edometriosis is one of the most intensively investigated benign gynaecological disorders, but our \nunderstanding of its causation remains \nsurprisingly incomplete. Several theories \nexist: coelomic metaplasia, induction, retrograde menst…