Endometriosis has long been considered as a disease of women over 30 years old. However, recent data from the literature demonstrated its high incidence in teenagers. Endometriosis in teenagers is generally associated with chronic pelvic pa…
OBJECTIVE: Evaluation of fertiloscopy's place in the management of female infertility. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Retrospective study including 229 women presenting primary or secondary infertility without pathology raising of an evident surgic…
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate risks and benefits of laparoscopic surgery of deep endometriosis, especially with bowel involvement with the aim of improve the inform consent of patients and choice of adequate management. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Obse…
Endometriosis of the urinary tract (bladder and/or ureter) is rare and concerns 1-2% of cases of endometriosis. Surgical management is usually mandatory. Rate of peri operative morbidity is low. There is a risk of functional (dysuria, chron…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the follicular response to controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) in IVF-ET cycles after laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy for large endometriomas. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In the set of a retrospective controlled s…
Massive ascites associated with pelvic endometriosis is an uncommon combination. Pleural effusion may rarely occur. Fourteen cases are reported in the literature. We report the case of a black nulligravida woman followed for a primary infer…
Indications of GnRH analogues before and/or after surgery for endometriosis remain controversial. Although some studies have underlined a decrease in rAFS scores using GnRH analogues pre-operatively, data are insufficient to recommend their…
Ovarian endometrioma is not infrequently encountered in infertile patients. Its etiopathogeny, its relations with attributed symptoms and the recommanded treatment to apply, are still debated. Various therapeutic tools are available, such a…
The objective of this short review is to identify the particularities of women with endometriosis, especially those complaining of pain and with the most severe lesions. Genetic aberrations play, with a high probability, a major role in the…
Adenomyosis constitutes the most frequent myometrial disorder with leiomyoma. Its clinical diagnosis is often difficult. After giving a histopathologic definition, the semiology, the limits, and the diagnostic role of hysterography, transab…
The majority of sacrococcygeal teratomas diagnosed before birth can be managed by planned delivery and postnatal surgery. However, large tumors early in gestation may result in placentomegaly, hydrops and fetal death and a preeclampsia-like…
OBJECTIVES: To assess the value of MRI and ano-rectal endosonography (ARES) for the diagnosis and surgical prognosis of rectovaginal septum endometriosis and to analyse the surgical management in order to evaluate its functional results and…
Uterine artery embolization is a radiological procedure consisting in occluding the perifibroid arterial plexus to induce fibroid ischemia. To date, with more than 50,000 women treated worldwide, embolization seems to be a valuable alternat…
To take care of a patient presenting with chronic pelvic pain requires a long-term approach considering all the organic, psychological and sexological aspects of the problem. To relieve the patient, it could be very useful to analyse the do…