Endometriosis

Emily E. Lenk, Beate Ditzen, Friedrich Wieser, Robert N. Taylor
In: Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine · 2017 · pp. 1–3 · doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_14-2 · W4245025272
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Endometriosis is a gynecological inflammatory disorder characterized by endometrial tissue implants outside the uterus, often causing pain and infertility, affecting up to 50% of symptomatic premenopausal women.

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This encyclopedia entry reviews endometriosis by defining it as benign but metastatic endometrial tissue implants outside the uterus, describing characteristic histology and common clinical manifestations such as dysmenorrhea, pelvic pain, dyspareunia, and infertility. It summarizes epidemiology (about 10% pelvic endometriosis in the general population and 35–50% in symptomatic premenopausal women) and associated economic impacts, and it notes that etiology involves multiple interacting mechanisms. A major limitation is that the piece is a narrative overview rather than a primary study, and the provided text truncates the discussion of etiologic pathways. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it provides a high-level definition, clinical description, and epidemiologic context for the condition.

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