J L Leroy

Relationship between infertility and endometriosis is still controversial. Many mechanisms have been reported such as anatomical disorders, biologic and cytological modifications of peritoneal liquid, functional ovarian and endometrial diso…

Endometrial cancer, a hormone-related disease with unopposal hyperestrogenemia as one of its major risk factor is usually diagnosed during post menopausal bleeding. Pathologic examination after endometrial biopsy or curettage is mandatory f…

Endometriosis is characterised by the presence in abnormal situation of a tissue resembling the endometrium with glands and stroma. Several assumptions try to explain the development of this tissue. The oldest, the theory of the metaplasia,…

Adenomyosis is a frequent pathology of the uterus for women over 40. Difficult to diagnose, adenomyosis can be responsible of pelvic pain and menorrhagia. Association with infertility is a rare event and the responsibility of adenomyosis is…

Fifty-four patients who had consulted because of their sterility had a laparoscopy carried out with bacteriological, cytological and biochemical studies of the peritoneal fluid as well as a histological assessment of the peritoneal adhesion…

Although endometriosis appears as a rare cause in long series of cases of extrauterine pregnancy, the study of pregnancies which survive after treatment of endometriosis show a significant increase of extrauterine pregnancy, especially in c…

Fluid was collected from the Ponch of Douglas at laparoscopy or laparotomy in 104 women. Macrophages were always present. The Schiff's histochemical reaction was positive inside the cytoplasm in cases of pelvic endometriosis in our study. T…