Endometriosis of the obturator nerve. A case report.
This case report describes a 33-year-old woman with thigh pain and leg weakness whose surgery revealed a locally invasive endometriotic lesion encircling the right ureter, internal iliac vein, and obturator nerve.
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- Magnetic resonance imaging evidence for perineural spread of endometriosis to the lumbosacral plexus: report of 2 cases 2015
- Neural involvement in endometriosis: Review of anatomic distribution and mechanisms 2015
- Rare extrapelvic endometriosis on iliac vein wall – diagnosis and treatment 2014
- Pain in the upper anterior-lateral part of the thigh in women affected by endometriosis: study of sensitive neuropathy 2013
- Perineural spread of endometriosis along the obturator nerve into the adductor thigh compartment 2012
- Cyclic sciatica from extrapelvic endometriosis affecting the sciatic nerve 2010
- Mysteries of endometriosis pain: Chien‐Tien Hsu Memorial Lecture 2009 2010
- Calf endometriosis: a case report and review of musculoskeletal involvement. 2009
- Laparoscopic excision of endometriosis of the obturator nerve: A case report 2007
- Immunohistochemical analysis of an ectopic endometriosis in the uterine round ligament. 2006
- Laparoscopic neurolysis of the pelvic sciatic nerve in a case of catamenial footdrop 2005
- Endometriosis of the vastus lateralis muscle 2005
- Ureteral Endometriosis 2003
- Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain 1998
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