Endometriose: revisão de literatura (artigo de revisão)

ABSTRACT: Endometriosis is a benign gynecological disease characterized by the presence and growth of functional endometrial tissue outside the uterus, which affects women of reproductive age. Endometriosis brings a high degree of social limitation in the patients affected. This disease was first described by Friedrich von Recklinghausen in 1893, but despite the time it was first described, the mechanisms of its pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment have not yet reached consensus in the scientific community. To do so, a continuous review of knowledge about the disease is necessary. A review on the literature on the disease, on the central scientific data banks, sought to compile the latest information about the disease. The results corroborate a clinical and social picture of the disease. But new studies and therapeutic protocols are needed, as well as their ongoing updating.