OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the role of local immunity in women with minimal endometriosis. METHODS: Uterine endometrium and endometrial implants were obtained simultaneously from 30 infertile women with minimal endometriosis and examined immun…
STUDY DESIGN: Bone mineral density of individuals with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament and that of normal people was determined by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry. OBJECTIVES: To determine whether bone mineral density …
OBJECTIVE: This study examines the influence of ovarian endometrioma on fertility. STUDY DESIGN: For 117 infertile women who were diagnosed as having endometriosis by laparoscopy and who underwent danazol therapy, we examined (1) the relat…
To investigate the pathogenesis of peritoneal endometriosis, the morphology of peritoneal endometriosis was studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and light microscopy (LM). After taking biopsies from peritoneal lesions which were su…
Chlamydia trachomatis usually causes asymptomatic cervicitis, but it sometimes ascends into the uterine cavity, fallopian tubes, or peritoneal cavity, causing pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility. In this study, we examined endocervi…
Two protocols were scheduled for in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) in patients with various stages of endometriosis who were resistant to conventional therapies. In the ultralong protocol (21 patients), gonadotropin releas…
Two cases of endometriosis causing ureteral stenosis are reported. Case 1. A 46-year-old woman was hospitalized with the complaint of right flank pain. Intravenous pyelography showed right hydronephrosis and retrograde pyelography revealed …