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Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol
February 2024
Centre Olympe de Gouges, Gynecologic Surgery Department, University Hospital, Tours, France. Electronic address:
Deep infiltrative endometriosis is a condition affecting up to 15 % of women of childbearing age, defined by extra uterine location of endometrial like tissues. The symptoms of endometriosis range from severe dysmenorrhea to infertility, chronic pelvic pain, bowel dysfunction and urinary tract involvement to name the most common. Endometriosis has an impact on the quality of life of patients, with personal and social consequences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGynecol Oncol
August 2023
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA 01605, USA; University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA.
Objective: The prognostic impact of intra-operative tumor spillage (ITS) during minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for endometrial cancer (EC) is not well studied. The objective of this study was to determine if there is an association between ITS and EC recurrence.
Methods: We performed a case-control study of patients with a laparoscopic or robot-assisted hysterectomy with EC on final pathology between 2017 and 2022 and compared those with (case) and without (control) a subsequent EC recurrence.
Am Fam Physician
October 2022
University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California.
Endometriosis is an inflammatory condition caused by the presence of endometrial tissue in extra-uterine locations and can involve bowel, bladder, and all peritoneal structures. It is one of the most common gynecologic disorders, affecting up to 10% of people of reproductive age. Presentation of endometriosis can vary widely, from infertility in asymptomatic people to debilitating pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, and period-related gastrointestinal or urinary symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Case Rep
July 2021
Leiomyomas may develop at extra-uterine locations and pose diagnostic dile mmas. This is a case of a fibroma originating from the left round ligament presenting as a symptomatic inguinal hernia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Surg Case Rep
March 2021
Department of General & Laparoscopic Surgery, Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital, Powai, Mumbai, 400076, India. Electronic address:
Introduction: Cecal endometriosis is an infrequent cause of right iliac fossa pain. The extra-uterine retroperitoneal cellular leiomyoma is a rare tumor. The concurrent existence of both these rare conditions is a unique event.
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