Textbook of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery

“Extrapelvic endometriosis” is a misleading term used in medical literature in several specialties, making it difficult and challenging to analyze comparative data and contributing to a confused understanding of the multiple forms of endome…

Endometriosis is a benign complex, estrogen-dependent, chronic inflammatory disease that affects 5%–10% of women of reproductive age (1–4). Endometriosis is characterized by the existence of ectopic endometrial-like tissue (stroma and gland…