BACKGROUND Endometriosis is a benign condition affecting females of reproductive age. Although intestinal endometriosis is common it is rare for the condition to manifest as an acute bowel obstruction secondary to ileocaecal and appendicular endometriosis. This case is important to report as it highlights the diagnostic difficulty this particular condition presents to an emergency surgeon. CA...

Endometriosis is a common chronic disease characterized by growth of the endometrial gland and stroma outside the uterus. Symptoms affect physical, mental and social well-being. Extrapelvic location of endometriosis is very rare. Abdominal wall endometriosis occurs in 0.03%-2% of women with a previous cesarean section or other abdominopelvic operation. The leading symptoms are abdominal nodular...

BACKGROUND Lack of a non-invasive diagnostic test contributes to the long delay between onset of symptoms and diagnosis of endometriosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the combined performance of six potential plasma biomarkers in the diagnosis of endometriosis. METHODS This case-control study was conducted in 294 infertile women, consisting of 93 women with a normal pelvis and 201 wo...

Endometriosis is defined as functioning endometrial glands and stroma outside the uterus. Pelvic endometriosis is more common than extrapelvic sites. Among extrapelvic sites, scar endometriosis is a very rare entity and is difficult to diagnose. It can affect the scars like caesarean section, laparotomy, perineal scars in episiotomy. The diagnosis mainly requires a high index of suspicion and t...

background: endometriosis is one of the most challenging diseases that constitute 20% - 40% of women searching for their infertility diagnosis. objective: this study was undertaken in order to compare the outcome of in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ivf/icsi) in women with endometriosis, and tubal factor infertility as controls. materials and methods: from 2005 to 2006 a ...

Extrapelvic endometriosis is a very rare entity and difficult to diagnose majority of which includes incisional scar endometriosis following an obstetric/gynecologic procedure. Diagnosis of scar endometriosis occurs as an underappreciated phenomenon particularly in general surgery, so the cesarean section incisional endometriosis may be more common than reflected in the literature. Although the...

This article aims to test the hypothesis that the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) in women with endometriosis might be changed by enrolling different population. A nationwide 14-year historic cohort study using the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) of Taiwan and the Registry for Catastrophic Illness Patients was conducted. A total of 239,385 women aged between 20 and 5...

Endometriosis most commonly affects the pelvic peritoneum close to the ovaries, including the uterosacral ligaments, the ovarian fossa peritoneum, and the peritoneum of the cul-de-sac. The increased diagnosis of endometriosis at laparoscopy can be explained by the increased experience and ability of the surgeon to detect such subtle lesions. The greatest change has been in the case of “subtle” ...

Endometriosis causes rare complications in pregnancy, such as obstetrical bleeding, preterm birth, spontaneous haemoperitoneum, and intestinal perforation. The prevalence of spontaneous perforation due to intestinal endometriosis is unknown in pregnancy. A recent review of the literature indicated 15 bowel complications caused by endometriosis during pregnancy or at the immediate postpartum per...