Bulletin de l'Academie nationale de medecine

Endometriosis can be a highly incapacitating disorder. The only effective treatment used to be surgery (increasingly by laparoscopy), and hormone therapy was solely used as an adjuvant. Today, thanks in particular to progress in sonography …

Progesterone antagonists belong to the family of selective progesterone receptor modulators. SPRMs already have several applications in women's health. Their main value lies in their effect on endometrium. For example, they can be used to r…

Ovarian cancers are the most lethal gynecologic malignancies and are rarely diagnosed in their early stages. The most common of these tumors--serous papillary carcinoma--is generally asymptomatic in the early stages. Non serous carcinomas (…

A study carried out on 342 cases of endometrial resection, with a follow up of 3 to 36 months, has allowed us to precise: 1. The indications of this technique: patients more than 40 years, suffering of abnormal uterine bleeding. 2. The endo…

Laparoscopic surgery appears now to be not just a series of simple modifications to operative techniques, but more truly a revolution. This is due to three factors: the simultaneous diagnosis of lesions, establishment of the prognosis and a…