Different types of extragenital endometriosis: A review
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This review analyzes over 1000 publications to provide an overview of extragenital endometriosis, which can manifest in various locations including the bowel, urinary tract, and thorax, beyond the internal genitalia.
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Abstract
Endometriotic growth may appear in any structure in the body. As well as affecting the internal genitalia, lesions are not uncommon in the bowel, urinary tract and thorax and reports of a number of cases at rarer sites have been published. This review is based on more than 1000 publications on the subject, that allows an overview of the appearance of the disease in different organs.
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