Background: Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease with the growth of endometrial cells out of uterus and in the peritoneal cavity. T cell subsets participate in the establishment and progress of the disease by producing different cytokines. Objective: To investigate a group of cytokines related to Th1/Th2/Th17/Treg subsets within both peripheral blood...

A 30-year-old woman presented with a four-week history of abdominal swelling. She had a long history of hormonal treatment for infertility but pregnancy test was negative. On ultrasound she was seen to have a large volume of ascites which was found to be haemorrhagic on insertion of an ascitic drain. Ascitic fluid cytology, culture and tuberculosis PCR were negative. An MRI pelvis confirmed lar...

Endometriotic cysts (Pic. 1) are formed when a tiny patch of endometrial tissue bleeds, sloughs off, becomes transplanted, and grows and enlarges. This closed sac with distinguished tissue and division may be filled with semi-solid materials, fluids or air. When it ruptures, the material spills over into the pelvis and onto the surface of the uterus, bladder, bowel, and the corresponding spaces...

Cutaneous endometriosis represents a non-neoplastic, ectopic growth of endometrial glands and stroma outside the uterine cavity [1-4]. Daneil Schroen, a German physician, first described endometriosis in 1690 [5]. Years later, in 1885, the first case of cutaneous endometriosis was identified and reported [3]. Cutaneous endometriosis is typically divided into two categories, scar endometriosis a...

Objective: Endometriosis, one of the most common estrogen dependent gynecological disorders, can present as both benign and malignant disease. The prevalence of tumoral transformation is 0.7-1.6% and the most common tumors are clear cell and endometrioid carcinomas. Unfortunately, the pathogenesis of transformation is unknown. For this purpose, we examined molecular alterations in ovarian endom...

INTRODUCTION Endometriosis is defined as overgrowth of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. Endometriosis may be asymptomatic or associated with dysmenorrheal symptoms, dyspareunia, pelvic pain, abnormal uterine bleeding and infertility. The aim of this study was to explore the risk factors related to endometriosis among infertile Iranian women. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this case con...

Endometriosis is a benign proliferative lesion in which ectopic endometrium or endometrium-like tissue is observed, and is roughly divided, according to the site of development, into internal endometriosis occurring in the uterus and external endometriosis occurring outside the uterus. Cases of endometriosis in the inguinal region are uncommon, accounting only for 0.8% of all cases of external ...

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of endometriosis among women reproductive age and the complexity choosing methods for its effective treatment necessitate study clinical morphological features ovarian in recurrent course, as well search available informative diagnostic prognostic markers which allow identifying risk groups relapse form prevention methods. Endometriomas have a recurrence rate 5055 % a...

BACKGROUND Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is well established. Its application in Nigeria has however been limited and not been reported. The aim of this study was to describe our institutional experience and challenges with VATS. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a retrospective cross-sectional study of all patients that underwent VATS in our institution between March 2008 and June 2013...

endometriosis is described as the presence of functioning endometrial tissue (glands and stroma) outside the uterine cavity. the most common location is within the pelvis. however, extra pelvic endometriosis is a fairly uncommon disorder and difficult to diagnose. it can sometimes occur in a surgical scar. scar endometriosis is a rare condition and difficult to diagnose. it mostly follows obste...