Irina Bălescu

Widely recognized as the most deathful gynecologic malignancy affecting women worldwide, ovarian cancer has reported a significant decline in terms of prevalence and incidence in the last decades. This fact has been especially explained by …

Endometriosis represents a debilitating disease affecting women at fertile age which is associated with severe symptoms such as chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia and infertility. The pathogenesis of this disease is not fully un…

Throughout the history of medicine, a wide range of terms has attempted to define normal menstruation and abnormal uterine bleeding in relation to its various etiologies. Over time, terminological variations have hampered the documentation …

Adenomyosis is defined by the presence of ectopic endometrial glands and stroma inside the myometrium. Definite diagnosis is made only on hysterectomy specimens, but all the progress in modern imaging techniques has increased the paraclinic…

Endometriomas represent a common finding among women at fertile age and usually associated with pelvic pain, infertility, heavy menstrual periods and dyspareunia. For a long period of time surgical resection has been considered the golden s…

Uterine adenomyosis is defined by the presence of heterotopic endometrial glands and stroma at the myometrial level. Although imagistic studies improved, the incidence of adenomyosis is still underestimated, in a significant number of cases…

Abnormal uterine bleeding is probably the most frequent gynecological issue that leads women to a consult with a subsequent ultrasound. Transvaginal ultrasonographic evaluation represents the most sensitive method of endometrial evaluation,…

The human endometrium is a highly regenerative organ undergoing over 400 cycles of shedding and regeneration over a woman’s lifetime. This massive regenerative capacity is thought to have a stem cell basis, with human endometrial stromal st…

Although it represents a benign condition, endometriosis is an important and sometimes debilitating health problem affecting women worldwide, associated with a high capacity of relapse. While the correlation between different endometrial pa…

L'endomtriose infiltration profonde est une maladie dbilitante qui affecte gnralement les jeunes femmes et a un impact important sur la qualit de la vie. Du fait qu'il s'agit toujours d'une affection bnigne affectant gnralement les patients…

L'endomtriose urtrale est caractrise par le dveloppement d'lots infiltrants profonds du tissu endomtrial affectant l'uretre, la gestion optimale dans de tels cas tant encore mal dfinie. Une fois que les techniques de chirurgie laparoscopiqu…

Endometriosis is a common finding in premenopausal women and a significant number of cases presenting digestive tract involvement at the time of diagnosis. However, most of these patients present pelvic nodules involving the rectosigmoidian…