British journal of urology

In a case of endometrioid carcinoma of the prostate the expression of Leu7 and prostatic specific antigen (PSA) was studied immunohistochemically on paraffin sections. The same markers were studied in 14 cases of prostatic cancer and 14 cas…

Five patients with ureteric endometriosis are described. Extensive pre-operative investigation failed to reveal the aetiology of the unilateral upper urinary tract obstruction seen in all of these patients. Due to the dense fibrosis that in…

Only 6 cases of ureteric endometriosis in postmenopausal women have been reported and in 3 of these oestrogen replacement therapy had been used (Pious et al , 1985; Ray et al , 1985). We report ureteric obstruction secondary to endometriosi…

Three cases of endometriosis are presented. In one patient bilateral obstruction was noted; in a second patient bilaterally enlarged kidneys with unilateral obstruction were found and in the third patient only unilateral obstruction was def…

A case of endometriosis obstructing the right ureter is described, with a clinical picture mimicking ureterolithiasis. The usefulness of rapid sequence camera-scintigram in the early diagnosis of ureteral obstruction is discussed.

Summary The first case of postmenopausal endometriosis involving the urinary tract is reported. lncidentally this is the 65th reported case of ureteral obstruction from endometriosis.

SUMMARY In a female pseudohermaphrodite left‐sided renal colic was caused by endometriosis of the left ovary, i.e. by a chocolate cyst compressing the ureter. Co‐existing endometriosis of the uterine muscle was the cause of cyclic pains in …