Background: Discrimination is common in medical education. Resident physicians of races and ethnicities underrepresented in medicine experience daily discrimination which has been proven to negatively impact training. There is limited data on the impact of resident race/ethnicity on OB/GYN surgical training.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To compare demographic characteristics of women with and without a diagnosis of endometriosis.
Design: Data were collected from the National Survey of Family Growth-a publicly available survey designed and administered by the Centers for Disease Control, which uses a nationally-representative sample of the United States population. Univariate data were reported as survey-weighted percentages and means and were analyzed using chi-square, t tests, and logistic regression.
Abdominal wall endometriosis (AWE) is a rare type of endometriosis defined as endometrial glands and stroma located within the abdominal wall. Patients with a history of prior abdominal surgery classically present with cyclic abdominal pain and a palpable mass. Definitive diagnosis is made by pathologic tissue examination, but preoperative imaging with ultrasonography or MRI helps narrow the differential and informs surgical management.
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