endometriosis

Examples of endometriosis in the following topics:

• Endometriosis

  • Endometriosis is a condition where the cells of the endometrium leak out and grow outside of the uterine cavity.
  • The amount of pain experienced correlates poorly with the extent of endometriosis (stage one through four).
  • Some women have little or no pain despite having extensive endometriosis with scarring, while others may have severe pain even though they have only a few small areas of endometriosis.
  • There is no known cure for endometriosis.
  • However, the pathophysiology of endometriosis would appear to involve an interplay between several factors.

• Hysterectomy

  • Severe and intractable endometriosis (growth of the uterine lining outside the uterine cavity) and/or adenomyosis (a form of endometriosis, where the uterine lining has grown into and sometimes through the uterine wall musculature), after pharmaceutical or other surgical options have been exhausted.

• Ovarian Cancer

  • Infertile women and those with a condition called endometriosis, and those who use postmenopausal estrogen replacement therapy are at increased risk.

• Ovarian Cysts

  • A chocolate cyst is an endometrioma, endometrioid cyst, endometrial cyst, or chocolate cyst is caused by endometriosis, and formed when a tiny patch of endometrial tissue (the mucous membrane that makes up the inner layer of the uterine wall) bleeds, sloughs off, becomes transplanted, and grows and enlarges inside the ovaries.

• Adhesions

  • Abdominal adhesions (or intra-abdominal adhesions) are most commonly caused by abdominal surgical procedures but may also be caused by pelvic inflammatory disease or endometriosis.

• Menopause

  • ., endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, cancer of the reproductive organs) can go into menopause at a younger age than the normal timeframe.