Endometriosis: Ancient or modern disease?

Giuseppe Benagiano, Ivo Brosens, Donatella Lippi
The Indian journal of medical research · 2015 · vol. 141(2) , pp. 236 · doi:10.4103/0971-5916.155594 · PMID:25900960 · W2125571559
letter OA: diamond CC0 ⤵ 12 in-corpus citations
🔓 Open OA copy Full text JSON View on OpenAlex View on PubMed View at publisher
⚙ AI-generated summary by claude@2026-06, 2026-06-08 ⓘ

This paper reconstructs the history of endometriosis based on various historical sources to determine if it is an ancient or modern disease.

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

Abstract

reconstruction of endometriosis according to different sources
Full text 1,645 characters · extracted from oa-html · click to expand
Volume 141 | Issue 2 | February 2015 Editorial Man Mohan Mehndiratta, Swati Anil Wadhai Commentary Arnab Gupta Viewpoint Deepa Bhartiya Review Article Prabudh Goel, J.D. Rawat, A. Wakhlu, S.N. Kureel Review Article Yong Gil Kim, Byung Ik Jang Original Article Manjula Mathur, Ekta Singh, T.B. Poduval, Akkipeddi V.S.S.N. Rao Original Article Mohammed Faruq, Achal Kumar Srivastava, Suman Singh, Rohit Gupta, Tanuj Dada, Ajay Garg, Madhuri Behari, Mitali Mukerji Original Article Vandana Pradhan, Prathamesh Surve, Anjali Rajadhyaksha, Vinod Rajendran, Manisha Patwardhan, Vinod Umare, Kanjaksha Ghosh, Anita Nadkarni Original Article Anuradha S. Tripathy, Babasaheb V. Tandale, Saravana S. Balaji, Supriya L. Hundekar, Ashwini Y. Ramdasi, Vidya A. Arankalle Original Article Mini Pritam Singh, Manasi Majumdar, Babu Ram Thapa, Puneet Kumar Gupta, Jasmine Khurana, Bimal Budhathoki, Radha Kanta Ratho Original Article I.C. Obidike, B. Amodu, M.O. Emeje Original Article S.K. Sharma, Ashish Goel, S.K. Gupta, Krishna Mohan, V. Sreenivas, S.K. Rai, U.B. Singh, L.S. Chauhan Correspondence Giuseppe Benagiano, Ivo Brosens, Donatella Lippi Correspondence Priyanka Jain, Suman Nandy, Renu Bharadwaj, Swapan Kumar Niyogi, Shanta Dutta Correspondence Mastan Singh, Jyotsna Agarwal, Chandra Dev Pati Tripathi, Chandra Kanta Correspondence N. H. Ramzi, J. K. Chahil, S. H. Lye, K. Metnam, K. I. Sahadevappa, S. Velapasamy, N. A. N. Hashim, S. K. Cheah, G. C. C. Lim, H. Hussein, M. R. Haron, L. Alex, L.W. Ler Clinical Images Kamal Kant Sahu, Subhash Chander Varma Clinical Images P. Shanmuga Sundaram, S. Padma Clinical Images Kranti Garg, Varinder Saini

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-html ⓘ

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

mesh:D004715endometriosis

MeSH descriptors

Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Female History, 19th Century History, Ancient 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)

Cited by (12)

Source provenance

europepmc
last seen: 2026-06-04T01:30:01.192114+00:00
openalex
last seen: 2026-06-04T00:00:01.174412+00:00
pubmed
last seen: 2026-05-13T22:17:58.238279+00:00
License: CC0 · commercial use OK