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Endometriosis entails a huge burden: it is estimated that affects 10% of women in their reproductive age.Symptoms may be severe (chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, dysuria, dyschezia and fatigue) affecting women's quality of li…

Background. Spontaneous rupture of uterine vessels is a rare and life-threating event than can rarely occur during spontaneous and low-risk pregnancies. The definitive association between adverse obstetrical events and pelvic endometriosis …

PURPOSE: To evaluate obstetric outcome in women with endometriosis who conceive naturally and receive standard obstetric care in Italy. METHODS: Cases were consecutive women with endometriosis managed in eleven Italian referral centers. Co…

CONCLUSION: High suspicion of scar endometriosis are painful no-dule in the abdominal scar. Wide surgical excision is the treatment of choice. INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis has been described as the presence of endometrial tissue outside ute…

The incidence of endometriosis in middle-aged women is not minimal compared to that in the reproductive age group. The treatment of affected women after childbearing age to the natural transition toward menopause has received considerably p…

AIM: Our goals were to assess the psychometrical characteristics of EHP-30, to test its higher degree of appropriateness compared to the generic Quality of Life-assessment tools for Italian women suffering from endometriosis, and to determi…

The aim of the study was to investigate the clinical value of the serum CA 125 level for diagnosing and determining the severity of endometriosis and pelvic pain associated with endometriosis. Eighty-six women who underwent operative laparo…