Clinical characteristics of women with endometriosis.

The author followed prospectively the clinical presentation of endometriosis in 413 patients with subsequently confirmed endometriosis in 1994 laparotomies performed between 1984 and 1988. Age at menarche and at the time of clinical presentation of the disease, menstrual cycle abnormalities and the rest of the symptoms and signs of the condition, together with the findings on examination are presented. The correlations between the signs and symptoms and the clinical characteristics are presented by the author expand the previously published reports in the literature.