Endometriosis. More on the missed disease
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Rectal pain, especially premenstrually, indicates rectovaginal septum endometriosis and warrants gynecologist referral, a symptom Engemise and colleagues omitted.
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Engemise and colleagues do not mention dyschezia as a symptom of endometriosis.1 Excruciating pain in the rectum, worst premenstrually and during menstruation, is indicative of deep endometriosis in the rectovaginal septum and should prompt a general practitioner (GP) to refer to a gynaecologist.2
The 7025 women with endometriosis in the survey …
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- Uterine Vulnerability: A Lived Experience Response to Endometriosis 2026
- Chronic Uncertainty and Modest Expectations: Navigating Fertility Desires in the Context of Life With Endometriosis 2022
- Learning to live with endometriosis: Findings from a phenomenological study among women in Mauritius, a state in the Indian Ocean 2022
- The missed disease? Endometriosis as an example of 'undone science' 2021
- TLR4 T399I Polymorphism and Endometriosis in a Cohort of Italian Women 2020
- Impact of endometriosis on women's lives: a qualitative study 2014
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