Journal of the American Medical Association

The basic treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease, except for the use of antibiotics, has undergone but little alteration since 1857, when Bernutz and Goupil first correctly described the pathology of the disease and gave recommendations f…

Chronic recurring spontaneous pneumothorax is a relatively common disorder which usually results from rupture of subpleural blebs. Endometriosis of the diaphragm, on the other hand, is an exceedingly rare lesion and, as nearly as can be det…

• In the infertile women the most frequent findings were menstrual irregularity and endometriosis. In the men, examination of the semen revealed azoospermia in more than an eighth of the cases studied. Instances of nonliquefying semen were …

The term "functional" includes those bleeding abnormalities that are not due to local lesions in the generative tract such as carcinoma, myoma, endometrial polyp, or pregnancy complications. The majority of these functional bleeding problem…

Much has been written, during the past three or four decades, on the subject of endometriosis. The theories of pathogenesis and clinical considerations of the disease have been repeatedly studied and reviewed so that there is little to add …

The presence of free blood in the peritoneal cavity, encountered at operation, usually arises from a ruptured corpus hemorrhagicum, a bleeding peptic ulcer, or an ectopic pregnancy. Less frequently blood-tinged fluid is seen in mesenteric t…

Women experience varied discomforts due to endometriosis. It must first be decided which to consider complications of the disease. The site of an endometrioma does not of itself assure development of difficulties, and extragenital or extrap…

In the past twenty-five years abundant information regarding the behavior of endometriosis has been acquired. Enlightenment is so far from complete that the variegated pattern of this disease leads to a "wide open" field in fundamental rese…

Dr. John Fallon of Worcester, Mass., in the summer of 1946, reported 9 cases of endometriosis in girls under 20. Up to the time of his report endometriosis was not looked for in persons of teen age. Fallon drew attention to endometriosis as…

Many factors contribute to the presence of pelvic pain during menstruation. Attention in the present paper will be devoted primarily to the myometrium, though the person as a unit must always be considered. The present knowledge concerning …

The occurrence of a small tumor composed of endometrial tissue on the posterior aspect of the thigh of a Filipino woman seemed sufficiently unusual to warrant reporting. REPORT OF CASE History.—A Filipino woman aged 35, a Philippine army nu…

Four per cent of the last 225 patients with "external" endometriosis who were seen at this clinic were less than 20 years old. Four per cent is a small figure, but there are grounds for suspecting that it is less than the true one. And it i…

At present it is a matter of some importance to know just how frequently the endometrium is the seat of inflammatory or other changes which require treatment. Such knowledge is especially valuable in reference to cases in which the sole pel…