Journal of the National Medical Association

The charts of 340 patients who underwent an endometrial suction procedure using Karman's cannula and syringe were reviewed. The therapeutic uses of this instrument were for the treatment of chronic endometritis (18.6%), the evacuation of in…

Adenomyosis has been referred to as diagnostically elusive due to the difficulty of clinical identification and unknown etiology. In a retrospective study of 178 consecutive uteri removed or biopsied at Howard University Hospital significan…

Seventy-five patients, from December 1984 to December 1985, received carbon dioxide (CO(2)) laser laparoscopy for infertility and pelvic pain. The chief complaint of 55 patients was pelvic pain, and for 20 patients, either primary or second…

A 32-year-old woman presented with sepsis nine days after a transrectal incision and drainage of a recurrent supralevator abscess. The findings included a large mass arising from the pelvis containing multiple, leaking, and infected endomet…

Adenomyosis has been an entity of some interest for many years, but little is known today of its pathogenesis. There is almost universal agreement that it is associated with an accentuation of the myometrial muscle pattern, multiparity, and…

That a female patient with abdominal pain is often considered to have pelvic inflammatory disease until proven otherwise is ubiquitous in the medical literature. This view is dangerous and should be challenged because it has resulted in epi…

Six cases of pelvic endometriosis are discussed and their ultrasonic appearances presented. The literature is reviewed concerning the ultrasonic appearance of pelvic endometriosis. The clinical significance of endometriosis in the different…