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BACKGROUND: Retroperitoneal endometriosis is a common benign disease, which requires an interdisciplinary approach. In the clinical practice diagnosis is often delayed for years after onset of the unspecific symptoms so that increased aware…

Symptomatic renal cysts are not uncommon and can be treated by puncture, sclerotherapy, or laparoscopic fenestration. We report the case of a female patient in whom the diagnosis of a supposedly simple symptomatic renal cyst changed over en…

Chronic pelvic pain in women is a difficult subject that challenges the gynecologist in practice. Possible gynecological causes are endometriosis, adhesions/PID, pelvic varicosis and ovarian retention syndrome/ovarian remnant syndrome. Othe…

Endometriosis is a benign growth of ectopic endometrial mucous membrane which has maintained the histological characteristics and biological reactions of uterine mucous membrane. In only 1-2% of cases does it occur in the urinary system, mo…

Endometriosis (E) of the urinary tract is often not diagnosed at the beginning of the disease, particularly in cases with bladder wall involvement resulting in persistent dysuria and pelvic pain. Therefore, cystitis-like symptoms in younger…

The indications and possibilities of radiotherapy in carcinomas of the renal pelvis and the ureter are demonstrated. Based on the literature and our own experience in 22 cases, postoperative radiotherapy should be performed in cases of deep…

Endometriosis of the left kidney complicated by urolithiasis is described. This represents the tenth case in the world literature of kidney endometriosis. The most common symptom is low back pain. Macroscopic hematuria was only present in h…