Sex cord tumor with annular tubules (SCTATs) is a relatively rare ovarian neoplasm often having a syndromic association with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS). Other associations described with this rare neoplasm include adenoma malignum of cervix, Turners syndrome, dysgerminoma, gonadoblastoma, endometrial carcinoma, and endometriosis of fallopian tube. We describe for the first time to the best of...

conclusions some other small studies have proved that statins were effective in regression of endometriosis implants and we have also proved that the levels of serum lipid profile was higher in patients suffering from endometriosis, perhaps higher levels of lipid profile has a significant etiologic role in pathogenesis of endometriosis. results we had 25 patients in endometriosis group and 50 i...

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 Introduction: Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent, progressive inflammatory disease caused by the growth of endometrium-like tissue outside uterine cavity. In women reproductive age, it a prevalent cause pelvic pain. Surgical intervention may be required in insufficiency conservative treatments and laparoscopic procedures should prioritized for surgery. The objective our study...

Endometriosis and urinary calculosis can co-occur. Clinical studies have shown that both painful and non-painful endometriosis in women are associated with enhanced pain and referred muscle hyperalgesia from urinary calculosis, but the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are still poorly understood. The aim of this study was to develop an animal model adequate to explore this viscero-visceral...

To evaluate the involvement of chemokines in the pathogenesis of endometriosis, we investigated the expression of CXC chemokines in cultured ovarian endometriotic cyst stromal cells (ECSC), endometrial stromal cells with endometriosis (ESCwE), and normal endometrial stromal cells (NESC). Using ELISA, TNF-alpha significantly enhanced the production of IL-8, growth-related oncogene alpha, and epi...

Nasu K, Nishida M, Ueda T, Yuge A, Takai N, Narahara H. Application of the nuclear factorB inhibitor BAY 11-7085 for the treatment of endometriosis: an in vitro study. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 293: E16–E23, 2007. First published August 8, 2006; doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00135.2006.—Most of the current medical treatments for endometriosis aim to downregulate estrogen activity. However, a high rec...

The patient was a 49-year-old Japanese female with a history of surgery for ovarian endometriosis and adenomyosis. A retroperitoneal mass was also identified preo peratively. A later computed tomography (CT) examination revealed that the mass had grown. On unenhanced CT, the mass with a diameter of 4.5 cm was located to the right of the rectum and in front of the sacrum. It consisted of soft ti...

Endometrioma is defined as an ovarian pseudocyst arising from growth of ectopic endometrial tissue, which progressively invaginates the ovarian cortex . Nearly17-44% of women with endometriosis also have endometriomas. Whereas detection of peritoneal endometriosis and adhesions typically requires laparoscopic assessment of the pelvis, endometriomas can be reliably diagnosed by transvaginal ultr...

The objective of this study was to determine the distribution of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in eutopic and ectopic endometria in endometriosis and adenomyosis. The subjects were 35 patients with endometriosis diagnosed by laparoscopy, 33 patients with histologically confirmed adenomyosis and 50 female controls with normal fecundity. Expression of COX-2 was immunohistochemically investigated in ti...

Background Endometriosis is a complex disease with a spectrum of pain symptoms from mild dysmenorrhea to debilitating pelvic pain. There is no concrete evidence in the literature whether endometriotic cyst per se, causes pain spectrum related to the disease. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of surgical removal of endometriomas on pain symptoms. MaterialsAndMethods In this...