Endometriosis

Ana Luísa Alencar De Nicola, Luís Ronan Marquez Ferreira de Souza
In: Atlas of Imaging in Infertility · 2017 · pp. 41–69 · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13893-0_5 · W4247022991
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Endometriosis is a chronic disease characterized by endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus, affecting up to 10% of reproductive-age women and often presenting with pain, infertility, and sometimes urinary or gastrointestinal symptoms.

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This paper is a chapter defining endometriosis and describing its clinical presentation, prevalence, and associated urinary and gastrointestinal symptoms, with prevalence estimates around 10% in women of reproductive age and 50% among women with infertility. It presents endometriosis as chronic disease characterized by ectopic tissue with histological and functional features similar to endometrium, occurring outside the uterine cavity, and lists common symptoms including dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain, and infertility. The chapter primarily provides background rather than new primary data, and it does not state specific methodological limitations beyond being an overview that relies on cited literature. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it provides a general description of the disease definition, symptom spectrum, and prevalence.

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