Session 05: Endometriosis: Impact, Diagnosis and Surgery

Umbilical endometriosis: A rare diagnosis in plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Umbilical endometriosis infrequently presents to the plastic surgeon. As such, the diagnosis is difficult to make because it is often overlooked. The current report presents a 35-year-old nulligravid woman with a six-month history of a firm, cyclically swelling lesion in her umbilical region. None of the signs characteristic of pelvic endometriosis except dysmenorrhea and a one-year history of ...

Diagnosis and management of endometriosis.

Signs and symptoms of endometriosis are nonspecific, and an acceptably accurate noninvasive diagnostic test has yet to be reported. Serum markers do not provide adequate diagnostic accuracy. The preferred method for diagnosis of endometriosis is surgical visual inspection of pelvic organs with histologic confirmation. Such diagnosis requires an experienced surgeon because the varied appearance ...

Laser Surgery for endometriosis

The definitions and our understanding of endometriosis have changed over time. Endometriosis was introduced clinically at the beginning of this century, as ovarian “chocolate cysts” and as adenomyosis externa. 3;4 It was defined as endometrial glands and stroma outside the uterus, and this morphological definition still is the gold standard. Using this definition, black puckered lesions in the ...

Preoperative Diagnosis of Endometriosis

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