Extrapelvic endometriosis: a rare entity or an under diagnosed condition?
Endometriosis is a clinical entity characterized by the presence of normal endometrial mucosa abnormally implanted in locations other than the uterine cavity. Endometriosis can be either endopelvic or extrapelvicdepending on the location of endometrial tissue implantation. Despite the rarity of extr...
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pubmed-39422792014-03-05 Extrapelvic endometriosis: a rare entity or an under diagnosed condition? Machairiotis, Nikolaos Stylianaki, Aikaterini Dryllis, Georgios Zarogoulidis, Paul Kouroutou, Paraskevi Tsiamis, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis, Nikolaos Sarika, Eirini Courcoutsakis, Nikolaos Tsiouda, Theodora Gschwendtner, Andreas Zarogoulidis, Konstantinos Sakkas, Leonidas Baliaka, Aggeliki Machairiotis, Christodoulos Review Endometriosis is a clinical entity characterized by the presence of normal endometrial mucosa abnormally implanted in locations other than the uterine cavity. Endometriosis can be either endopelvic or extrapelvicdepending on the location of endometrial tissue implantation. Despite the rarity of extrapelvic endometriosis, several cases of endometriosis of the gastrointestinal tract, the urinarytract, the upper and lower respiratory system, the diaphragm, the pleura and the pericardium, as well as abdominal scars loci have been reported in the literature. There are several theories about the pathogenesis and the pathophysiology of endometriosis. Depending on the place of endometrial tissue implantation, endometriosis can be expressed with a wide variety of symptoms. The diagnosis of this entity is neither easy nor routine. Many diagnostic methods clinical and laboratory have been used, but none of them is the golden standard. The multipotent localization of endometriosis in combination with the wide range of its clinical expression should raise the clinical suspicion in every woman with periodic symptoms of extrapelvic organs. Finally, the therapeutic approach of this clinical entity is also correlated with the bulk of endometriosis and the locum that it is found. It varies from simple observation, to surgical treatment and treatment with medication as well as a combination of those. BioMed Central 2013-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3942279/ /pubmed/24294950 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-8-194 Text en Copyright © 2013 Machairiotis et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
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Machairiotis, Nikolaos Stylianaki, Aikaterini Dryllis, Georgios Zarogoulidis, Paul Kouroutou, Paraskevi Tsiamis, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis, Nikolaos Sarika, Eirini Courcoutsakis, Nikolaos Tsiouda, Theodora Gschwendtner, Andreas Zarogoulidis, Konstantinos Sakkas, Leonidas Baliaka, Aggeliki Machairiotis, Christodoulos |
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Machairiotis, Nikolaos Stylianaki, Aikaterini Dryllis, Georgios Zarogoulidis, Paul Kouroutou, Paraskevi Tsiamis, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis, Nikolaos Sarika, Eirini Courcoutsakis, Nikolaos Tsiouda, Theodora Gschwendtner, Andreas Zarogoulidis, Konstantinos Sakkas, Leonidas Baliaka, Aggeliki Machairiotis, Christodoulos Extrapelvic endometriosis: a rare entity or an under diagnosed condition? |
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Machairiotis, Nikolaos Stylianaki, Aikaterini Dryllis, Georgios Zarogoulidis, Paul Kouroutou, Paraskevi Tsiamis, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis, Nikolaos Sarika, Eirini Courcoutsakis, Nikolaos Tsiouda, Theodora Gschwendtner, Andreas Zarogoulidis, Konstantinos Sakkas, Leonidas Baliaka, Aggeliki Machairiotis, Christodoulos |
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Extrapelvic endometriosis: a rare entity or an under diagnosed condition? |
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Extrapelvic endometriosis: a rare entity or an under diagnosed condition? |
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Extrapelvic endometriosis: a rare entity or an under diagnosed condition? |
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Extrapelvic endometriosis: a rare entity or an under diagnosed condition? |
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Extrapelvic endometriosis: a rare entity or an under diagnosed condition? |
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extrapelvic endometriosis: a rare entity or an under diagnosed condition? |
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Endometriosis is a clinical entity characterized by the presence of normal endometrial mucosa abnormally implanted in locations other than the uterine cavity. Endometriosis can be either endopelvic or extrapelvicdepending on the location of endometrial tissue implantation. Despite the rarity of extrapelvic endometriosis, several cases of endometriosis of the gastrointestinal tract, the urinarytract, the upper and lower respiratory system, the diaphragm, the pleura and the pericardium, as well as abdominal scars loci have been reported in the literature. There are several theories about the pathogenesis and the pathophysiology of endometriosis. Depending on the place of endometrial tissue implantation, endometriosis can be expressed with a wide variety of symptoms. The diagnosis of this entity is neither easy nor routine. Many diagnostic methods clinical and laboratory have been used, but none of them is the golden standard. The multipotent localization of endometriosis in combination with the wide range of its clinical expression should raise the clinical suspicion in every woman with periodic symptoms of extrapelvic organs. Finally, the therapeutic approach of this clinical entity is also correlated with the bulk of endometriosis and the locum that it is found. It varies from simple observation, to surgical treatment and treatment with medication as well as a combination of those. |
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