Endometriosis as a scientific, medical and social problem

Endometriosis is characterized by a variety of forms and variants of the clinical course, paradoxical aspects of etiopathogenesis. Many years of our own experience and analysis of the work of the Russian Association of Endometriosis indicate that this disease is a serious social problem due to the prevalence of such symptoms as debilitating chronic or cyclic pelvic pain, reproductive dysfunction and menstrual cycle in its clinical picture.