Publications by authors named "Joelle Osias"
Surgical management of complex obstetric fistula in Eritrea.
J Womens Health (Larchmt)
November 2005
Objectives: To evaluate the incidence of and demographic characteristics associated with obstetric fistula in Eritrea. To determine the outcomes of surgical repair of complex fistula in Eritrea by a visiting surgical team.
Methods: A surgical team comprising expert gynecologic surgeons traveled to Eritrea in September 2004.
Background: Extragenital endometriosis is an uncommon condition that can affect almost any organ system and tissue in the human body. Disease involving multiple distant sites is extremely uncommon.
Methods: We report a rare case of synchronous rectovaginal, urinary bladder, and pulmonary endometriosis.
Clinical and basic science research in endometriosis has been severely hampered by the lack of accurate noninvasive diagnostic tools. The advent of powerful genomic and proteomic technology may help elucidate the etiology and pathophysiology of this complex and enigmatic disease and open new avenues for diagnosis and treatment. Genomic techniques have demonstrated that certain gene products are abnormally expressed in endometriotic tissues.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To report laparoscopic management of 15 patients with infiltrative bladder wall endometriosis and to report a case of endometrioid adenosarcoma.
Design: Prospective chart review.
Setting: Referral center for endometriosis.
Objective: The direct trocar technique is an alternative to Veress needle insertion and open laparoscopy for accessing the abdominal cavity for operative laparoscopy. We review our approach to abdominal entry in 1385 laparoscopies performed between September 1993 and June 2000 by our group at Stanford University Hospital, a tertiary Medical Center.
Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review of 1385 patients who underwent operative laparoscopy during the study years.