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Clear cell adenocarcinoma arising from abdominal wall endometriosis (AWE) is extremely rare. We report a case of a 60-year-old woman with a history of cesarean section and surgically treated AWE. Decades after initial resection, she develop…

Endometriosis is a chronic, estrogen-dependent inflammatory disorder affecting ~10% of reproductive-age women. It is underdiagnosed, with delays of 5-12 years. Symptoms include dysmenorrhea, chronic pelvic pain, dyspareunia, dyschezia, dysu…

Extrapelvic endometriosis is a rare type of endometriosis. The diagnosis can be challenging, especially if the patient lacks characteristic endometriosis symptoms. This case report presents a 27-year-old woman diagnosed with both primary um…

This is a case report of multiple uterine lithiasis in a 66-year-old, healthy woman. The patient had postmenopausal bleeding but no other complaints. She underwent uneventful vaginal hysterectomy, and multiple loose pieces of detached uteri…

Umbilical endometriosis is rare, representing only 0.5-1% of all cases of extragenital endometriosis. In infertile women, endometriosis may be as prevalent as 50%. Numerous differential diagnoses are present, hence the clinical diagnosis of…

Intussusception of the appendix is a rare condition with an incidence of approximately 0.01%. In adults, the lead point for the intussusception is most frequently endometriosis, whereas in children, acute inflammation of the appendix is usu…

The Cochrane collaboration has published two reviews on endometriosis in 2014. The review by Duffy et al analyses ten RCTs focussing on pain or subfertility, and laparoscopic surgery results in lower pain scores and increased clinical pregn…

Ureteral endometriosis is a rare variant of an otherwise common condition, which is primarily seen among premenopausal women. The symptoms and the clinical findings include silent loss of kidney function, gross haematuria, abdominal pain, h…

Approximately 5-10% of the women in the reproductive age are afflicted with endometriosis and many become pregnant after fertility treatment. Women with endometriosis seem to have an increased risk of placental complications, bleeding in pr…

A considerable proportion of women with endometriosis have intestinal involvement of the endometriosis. Intestinal endometriosis (IE) often results in abdominal pain and thus mimics the symptoms of other bowel diseases, including colon canc…

Spontaneous haemoperitoneum in pregnancy has been associated with endometriosis. More women with endometriosis get pregnant due to improved fertility treatment and little is known of their risk of obstetrical complications. We report a case…

Budd-Chiari syndrome is a very rare condition with an incidence and a prevalence of respectively 0.8 and 1.4 per million inhabitants per year. Significant large right-sided pleural effusion without significant ascites is well-known in porta…

A young woman, who had formerly been diagnosed with endometriosis, was admitted to hospital with five incidents of right-sided spontaneous pneumothorax. Despite two thoracoscopic operations the pneumothorax reoccurred. The third operation r…

A Cochrane review concluded that gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues (GnRHas) are more effective at relieving endometriosis-associated pain than no treatment/placebo, while there was not found any difference in pain relief between GnR…

The objective of this study was to review the literature concerning the possible link between endometriosis and ovarian cancer, and to highlight common aetiological factors. The aetiology for both diseases seems to be multifactorial. Hormon…

Inguinal endometriosis is a rare manifestation of endometriosis. Four cases are presented. In three of these cases proper diagnosis was delayed due to differential diagnostic difficulties as the symptoms in these cases were interpreted as h…

INTRODUCTION: The recommended sick leave after hysterectomy varies among operating wards and depends on many non-medical issues. The recommendation is rarely validated scientifically and is often without any connection to the women's actual…

UNLABELLED: Endometriosis is a chronic disease. The prevalence is difficult to define, but is estimated to be around 10%. Among women with chronic pelvic pain and infertility, the prevalence is considerably higher. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Al…

We report a case in which a patient received IVF treatment due to massive pelvic endometriosis. The tubal patency and sperm parameters were normal. After e-SET (elective single embryo transfer) ultrasonography showed a triplet pregnancy wit…

One in every 2,000 girls has hymen imperforatus. A few are recognized at birth because of mucocolpos. The rest are not detected before puberty. Typical symptoms are abdominal pain and distension of the lower abdomen, and half of the girls p…

A case history of acute obstruction of the sigmoid colon caused by endometriosis in a 35-year-old woman is described. Endometriosis occasionally causes relative stenoses of the bowel, whereas total obstruction is rarely seen. Obstruction of…

A case of adnexal tumor caused by Actinomyces Israelii is reported. The patient was a 39 year-old woman admitted because of persistent fever and a palpable tumor in the right fossa. She had used an IUD for 11 years. Nine months before admis…

Medical indications for in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) internationally and in Denmark are reviewed. Reports from large international centres document that tubal infertility, unexplained infertility, endometriosis and ma…

Parenchymal pulmonary endometriosis is an extremely rare but well described condition. We present four new cases, and discuss the examination and treatment of these patients. We conclude that the condition may be underdiagnozed, and that it…