Journal of the American Medical Association

Chronic recurring spontaneous pneumothorax is a relatively common disorder which usually results from rupture of subpleural blebs. Endometriosis of the diaphragm, on the other hand, is an exceedingly rare lesion and, as nearly as can be det…

Much has been written, during the past three or four decades, on the subject of endometriosis. The theories of pathogenesis and clinical considerations of the disease have been repeatedly studied and reviewed so that there is little to add …

Women experience varied discomforts due to endometriosis. It must first be decided which to consider complications of the disease. The site of an endometrioma does not of itself assure development of difficulties, and extragenital or extrap…

In the past twenty-five years abundant information regarding the behavior of endometriosis has been acquired. Enlightenment is so far from complete that the variegated pattern of this disease leads to a "wide open" field in fundamental rese…

Dr. John Fallon of Worcester, Mass., in the summer of 1946, reported 9 cases of endometriosis in girls under 20. Up to the time of his report endometriosis was not looked for in persons of teen age. Fallon drew attention to endometriosis as…

The occurrence of a small tumor composed of endometrial tissue on the posterior aspect of the thigh of a Filipino woman seemed sufficiently unusual to warrant reporting. REPORT OF CASE History.—A Filipino woman aged 35, a Philippine army nu…

Four per cent of the last 225 patients with "external" endometriosis who were seen at this clinic were less than 20 years old. Four per cent is a small figure, but there are grounds for suspecting that it is less than the true one. And it i…

At present it is a matter of some importance to know just how frequently the endometrium is the seat of inflammatory or other changes which require treatment. Such knowledge is especially valuable in reference to cases in which the sole pel…