Endometriosis in Adolescence

Endometriosis is a common cause of pelvic pain and infertility. The majority of women report symptoms since adolescence, and there are rare cases of endometriosis in premenarchal age patients. Symptoms in adolescence are similar to those in adulthood. Treatment usually consists of oral contraceptive...

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Autores principales: Dessole, Margherita, Melis, Gian Benedetto, Angioni, Stefano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3474254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23093966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/869191
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description Endometriosis is a common cause of pelvic pain and infertility. The majority of women report symptoms since adolescence, and there are rare cases of endometriosis in premenarchal age patients. Symptoms in adolescence are similar to those in adulthood. Treatment usually consists of oral contraceptives and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. In cases where this treatment is not successful, laparoscopy and biopsy of the lesions are necessary for diagnosis. However, emerging new technologies provide new options, in particular the use of serological markers.
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spelling pubmed-34742542012-10-23 Endometriosis in Adolescence Dessole, Margherita Melis, Gian Benedetto Angioni, Stefano Obstet Gynecol Int Review Article Endometriosis is a common cause of pelvic pain and infertility. The majority of women report symptoms since adolescence, and there are rare cases of endometriosis in premenarchal age patients. Symptoms in adolescence are similar to those in adulthood. Treatment usually consists of oral contraceptives and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. In cases where this treatment is not successful, laparoscopy and biopsy of the lesions are necessary for diagnosis. However, emerging new technologies provide new options, in particular the use of serological markers. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3474254/ /pubmed/23093966 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/869191 Text en Copyright © 2012 Margherita Dessole et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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