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PREREQUISITES: Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of endometriosis, pharmacodynamics of oral contraceptives, progestagens, antiprogestagens, danazol, GnRh agonist and non-steroidal antiinflammatory. PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The aim of this paper is…

BACKGROUND: Ovarian endometriomas is a common condition among women of reproductive age and represents a major cost in terms of public health. Despite these implications for public health, it remains difficult to arrive at a consensus on th…

AIM: To study the correlation between ultrasound, Doppler,measurement of CA 125 and histology in the preoperative diagnosis of ovarian cysts. METHODS: Prospective and analytical study about 77 patients in whom we analyzed the contribution o…

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of an ectopic endometrial tissue. It affects between 1% and 5% of women in reproductive age. Its main clinical symptoms are dysmenorrhoea and infertility. Among women having had abd…

BACKGROUND: AMP makes true great strides these last decades. Logically some complications were noticed even due to ovarian puncture such as hemorrhage, perforation or infection. The aim of this report is to try, through a review of literatu…

AIM: Infertility is a common disease which affects nearly 10% of women at reproductive age. The hysteroscopy and laparoscopy are becoming very important in the management of this pathology. We tried to assess the current results of both hys…

BACKGROUND: adenomyosis is a frequent gynecologic pathology which affects women particularly in the fifth decade. It is responsible of abnormal uterine bleeding and pelvic pain. The diagnosis can be difficult especially when it's associated…

BACKGROUND: Intrauterine insemination is usually proposed as the first line therapy for infertility related to cervical hostility, male factor, unexplained infertility or mild endometriosis. The overall succes rate of IUI is about 10-20% cl…

AimThe aim of our study is to evaluate the efficacy of joint distension during arthrography followed by an intra articular corticosteroid injection.MethodsThis procedure associated to a physical therapy started immediately after joint diste…

Endometriosis is an ectopic implantation of endometrial tissue. Authors report a case of a 33 year-old infertile women who presented a deep pelvic endometriosis infiltrating the right ureter with left ovarian endometrioma suspected by the u…

The authors report their experience about surgical laparoscopy in the management of women infertility. Based on a series of 87 patients (median age: 31 years), 61% have primary infertility. The surgical procedures were distal tuboplasty in …

In the differential diagnosis of intestinal obstruction, the endometriosis is an uncommon disease, rarely reported preoperatively. Surgical objective is a total resection of endometriomas, to guarantee symptom relief and ovoid recurrence. I…

Umbilical endometriosis is a rare localisation of the disease. The authors report three cases of umbilical endometriosis. The symptomatology is not usually typic. The only effective treatment remains the surgical exercise thus allowing the …

The authors suggest an analytic study of 35 cases of a adenomyosis discovered on operatory pieces of hysterectomy. The incidence over 28%. The pick of frequency is situated between 40 and 50 years old. The history of voluntary interruption …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of hysteroscopic endometrial resection such us a surgical alternative to hysterectomy in treating abnormal uterine bleeding unresponsive to treatment with progestogens. METHODS: A retrospective anal…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: The aim of our study is the analysis of Pound epidemiological, clinical, paraclinical and therapeutic aspects of adenomyosis. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was carried out on 87 patients who underwent hysterectomy for a…

The authors report 1 clinical case of pelvic endometriosis. The urinary symptoms and the radiological appearance of endometriosis with compression of the ureter are non specific. The diagnosis was established by histological examination of …