Is Endometriosis a Surgical Disease?

Paul J. Yong
In: Surgery: Current Research · 2014 · vol. 04(02) · doi:10.4172/2161-1076.1000164 · W2324797756
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Endometriosis, affecting one in ten women, causes pelvic pain and infertility, requires surgical confirmation, but its classification as a surgical disease remains controversial.

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Copyright: © 2014 Yong PJ, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Endometriosis affects one in ten reproductive-aged women, is a cause of pelvic pain and infertility, and accounts for $22 billion and $1.8 billion in total annual costs to American and Canadian society, respectively [1-3]. Endometriosis is defined as uterine endometrial glands/stroma being ectopically present outside of the uterus, usually elsewhere in the pelvis (e.g. the ovaries or pelvic peritoneum). The formal diagnosis of endometriosis requires surgical excision or biopsy followed by histological confirmation. However it is controversial whether endometriosis is truly a surgical disease.

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