International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics

OBJECTIVE: To review the evidence that add-back hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can ameliorate the metabolic consequences of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist treatment in women with symptomatic endometriosis. METHODS: A revi…

OBJECTIVES: This study was undertaken to determine the accuracy of preoperative transvaginal ultrasound in predicting ovarian histopathology in premenopausal women. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was performed from reproductive-age …

OBJECTIVE: Epidemiologic and clinicohistopathologic prognostic factors of uterine endometrioid carcinomas were analyzed. The association of estrogen related factors, focused on adenomyosis in the prognosis of endometrioid carcinomas was als…

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effectiveness of sonohysterography for monitoring asymptomatic postmenopausal breast cancer patients on long-term tamoxifen therapy. METHODS: Thirty-eight asymptomatic postmenopausal patients receiving tamoxifen…

Clinicians have a number of unmet needs regarding the diagnosis and management of endometriosis. The fulfilment of these would result in better advice for patients.

OBJECTIVE: To provide a view on how the clinician can select appropriate treatment when managing individual patients with endometriosis. METHODS: Review of randomized controlled trials and personal experience. RESULTS: The main determinan…

OBJECTIVE: To provide an overview of the medical, surgical and combined therapy options for endometriosis. RESULTS: Available medical options include danazol, progestogens, gestrinone, oral contraceptive agents, analgesics and gonadotropin…

OBJECTIVES: The objective of the present study was to determine the concentrations of CA 125, CA 15-3, CA 19-9, carcioembryogenic antigen (CEA), alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and beta-2 microglobulin (B2MG) in patients with pelvic endometriosis. …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the therapeutic efficacy and reproductive outcome following ultrasound guided aspiration (UGA) of endometrioma in infertile patients. METHOD: This is a prospective non-randomized clinical report of UGA in 22 infertil…

OBJECTIVE: To describe the usefulness of fine-needle aspiration cytology and drainage, followed by long-acting GnRH-agonist therapy in the management of post-operative peritoneal cysts with endometriosis. METHODS: In six women who were dia…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate longitudinally the effectiveness of long-term hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in preserving the bone mineral density (BMD) over a 5-year period in ovariectomized patients treated for gynecologic malignancies. METHO…

OBJECTIVE: To identify factors influencing postoperative pregnancy rate in women with extensive endometriosis and large endometriomata as the only identified cause of infertility that were treated by laparoscopy. METHOD: Sixty-four inferti…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the discrepancy between laparoscopic and laparotomic scoring methods using the revised American Fertility Society (AFS) classification of endometriosis. METHOD: In this prospective study, 84 patients with endometriosis…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to evaluate prospectively the sonomorphological feature of histologically verified endometriotic cysts. METHODS: Transvaginal sonography was performed in 122 patients. Age distribution of the patients, a…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine the occurrence of ovarian endometriosis in epithelial ovarian cancer in Japan. METHOD: The presence of ovarian endometriosis was determined by reviewing the sections of resected specime…

OBJECTIVE: Recurrent endometriomas after medical or surgical treatment is a difficult clinical problem for those patients who wish to perform ovulation induction. Therefore we tried to investigate the efficacy of sclerotherapy as an adjuvan…

Endornetriosis usually remains localized to the peritoneal cavity and intrathoracic endometriosis, in both its pleural and parenchymal forms, is very rare [l]. It can manifest as catamenial pneumothorax, catamenial hemoptysis, or an asympto…