Deep infiltrating endometriosis in young women

Maoheng Zu, M Zu, Zu M, Wei-Jie Meng, W Meng, Meng W, Qinyue Guo, Guo QZ, Q Z Guo, Z Q Liu, Liu ZQ
Clinical and experimental obstetrics & gynecology · 2017 · vol. 44(2) , pp. 268–271 · doi:10.12891/ceog3047.2017 · PMID:29746036 · W3015050042
article OA: bronze CC0
🔓 Open OA copy Full text JSON View on OpenAlex View on PubMed View at publisher
⚙ AI-generated summary by gemini-2.5-flash-lite, 2026-06-12 ⓘ

This study analyzed 27 young women with deep infiltrating endometriosis, identifying preoperative symptoms like pain and infertility, and confirming DIE after surgical intervention.

One-sentence paraphrase of the abstract; not a substitute for reading it. No clinical advice. How this works

⚙ AI-generated deep summary by claude@2026-06, 2026-06-12 · read from full text ⓘ

This paper retrospectively reviewed 27 patients under 38 years old diagnosed with deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE), admitted between January 2008 and July 2014, and summarized their pre- and postoperative clinical states. Common preoperative symptoms were dysmenorrhea, chronic pelvic pain, dyspareunia, rectouterine fossa nodule, and reduced fertility, and all patients underwent surgery (17 laparoscopic, 10 laparotomic), with postoperative pathological analysis confirming DIE. The authors report that DIE significantly affects the health of young women, while the main limitation is the small single-center case series design without a comparison group and with outcomes described descriptively. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it specifically analyzes deep infiltrating endometriosis in young women and its clinical symptom burden and surgical confirmation.

Read from the paper's body, not the abstract. Not a substitute for reading the paper. No clinical advice. How this works

Abstract

This work aimed to analyze the effect of deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) in young women. Twenty-seven cases of patients (below 38-years-old) diagnosed with DIE and admitted to the present hospital from January 2008 to July 2014 were reviewed, and their pre- and postoperative states of illness were summarized. The main preoperative symptoms included dysmenorrhea, chronic pelvic pain, dyspareunia, nodule in rectouterine fossa, and reduced level of fertility. All patients underwent surgery (17 laparoscopies and ten laparotomies). Postoperative pathological explanation confirmed DIE in lesions. DIE significantly affects the health of young women.
Full text 1,371 characters · extracted from oa-doi-fallback · 2 sections · click to expand

Abstract

This work aimed to analyze the effect of deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) in young women. Twenty-seven cases of patients (below 38-years-old) diagnosed with DIE and admitted to the present hospital from January 2008 to July 2014 were reviewed, and their pre- and postoperative states of illness were summarized. The main preoperative symptoms included dysmenorrhea, chronic pelvic pain, dyspareunia, nodule in rectouterine fossa, and reduced level of fertility. All patients underwent surgery (17 laparoscopies and ten laparotomies). Postoperative pathological explanation confirmed DIE in lesions. DIE significantly affects the health of young women.

Keywords

- Deep infiltrating endometriosis - Dysmenorrhea - Dyspareunia

Text is read by the "Ask this paper" AI Q&A widget below. Extraction quality varies by source — PMC NXML preserves structure cleanly, OA-HTML may include some navigation residue, and OA-PDF can have broken hyphenation. The publisher copy (via DOI) is the canonical version.

My notes (saved in your browser only)

⚙ Ask this paper AI returns verbatim quotes from the full text · source: oa-doi-fallback ⓘ

Answers must be backed by verbatim quotes from this paper's full text. Hallucinated quotes are dropped automatically; if no verbatim passage answers the question, we say so. How this works

Condition tags

dysmenorrheadyspareuniaendometriosischronic_pelvic_paindie_deep_infiltrating

MeSH descriptors

Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Gynecologic Surgical Procedures Laparoscopy Laparotomy Adult China China Dysmenorrhea Dysmenorrhea Dysmenorrhea Dyspareunia Dyspareunia Dyspareunia Female Gynecologic Surgical Procedures Humans

Citation neighborhood

Papers in the corpus that this work cites (lower rings, blue) and that cite this one (upper rings, green). Dot size scales with the paper's in-corpus citation count — bigger dot = more influential within the endo/adeno field. Click a dot to open that paper. [ expand to 2 hops ] — adds papers reached through this work's immediate citers/citees. Heavier; up to 60 extra dots.

References (11)

Source provenance

europepmc
last seen: 2026-08-22T06:09:51.966504+00:00
openalex
last seen: 2026-06-10T17:14:06.276822+00:00
pubmed
last seen: 2026-05-13T22:20:37.704673+00:00
License: CC0 · commercial use OK