The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice

Many women suffer from pelvic pain, and a great many visit their family doctor for diagnosis and treatment. Two common causes are primary dysmenorrhea and endometriosis. Primary dysmenorrhea is best treated by prostaglandin inhibition from …

Endometriosis is commonly found in 10 to 15 percent of women aged between 25 and 44 years,! and it has been estimated that 25 to 40 percent of infertile women have endometriosis.! In this report, we describe a patient with endometriosis who…

Case Report A 41-year-old woman with a family history of colon cancer in her father complained to her family physician of a 4-month history of crampy lower abdominal pain and a change of bowel habits from regularity to intermittent constipa…

Endometriosis is the presence of functional endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity.l When this tissue occurs in a circumscribed mass, it is referred to as an endometrioma.2 Although endometriosis is usually a pelvic disease, it can i…

The results of many experiments have shown that although people distribute their study time depending on the perceived difficulty of the materials, they do not succeed in compensating for this difficulty (e.g., Mazzoni & Cornoldi, 1993). Th…