Ectopic Endometriosis Seeded to the Rectus Muscle

Endometriosis is a pathological condition whereby endometrial glands and stroma are located outside the physiologically expected location, the uterus. A lesion is usually located in the pelvis but can also occur in the diaphragm, bowel, pleural cavity, or surgical scar. It is a benign estrogen-depen...

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Autores principales: Ologun, Gabriel O, Hannigan, Cara, Kwarteng, Edmund, Bambil, Aaron, Bertsch, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6834097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31763096
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5873
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author Ologun, Gabriel O
Hannigan, Cara
Kwarteng, Edmund
Bambil, Aaron
Bertsch, David
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Hannigan, Cara
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Bertsch, David
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description Endometriosis is a pathological condition whereby endometrial glands and stroma are located outside the physiologically expected location, the uterus. A lesion is usually located in the pelvis but can also occur in the diaphragm, bowel, pleural cavity, or surgical scar. It is a benign estrogen-dependent condition. Here, we present the case of a 40-year-old woman with ectopic endometriosis.
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spelling pubmed-68340972019-11-24 Ectopic Endometriosis Seeded to the Rectus Muscle Ologun, Gabriel O Hannigan, Cara Kwarteng, Edmund Bambil, Aaron Bertsch, David Cureus General Surgery Endometriosis is a pathological condition whereby endometrial glands and stroma are located outside the physiologically expected location, the uterus. A lesion is usually located in the pelvis but can also occur in the diaphragm, bowel, pleural cavity, or surgical scar. It is a benign estrogen-dependent condition. Here, we present the case of a 40-year-old woman with ectopic endometriosis. Cureus 2019-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6834097/ /pubmed/31763096 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5873 Text en Copyright © 2019, Ologun et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle General Surgery
Ologun, Gabriel O
Hannigan, Cara
Kwarteng, Edmund
Bambil, Aaron
Bertsch, David
Ectopic Endometriosis Seeded to the Rectus Muscle
title Ectopic Endometriosis Seeded to the Rectus Muscle
title_full Ectopic Endometriosis Seeded to the Rectus Muscle
title_fullStr Ectopic Endometriosis Seeded to the Rectus Muscle
title_full_unstemmed Ectopic Endometriosis Seeded to the Rectus Muscle
title_short Ectopic Endometriosis Seeded to the Rectus Muscle
title_sort ectopic endometriosis seeded to the rectus muscle
topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6834097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31763096
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5873
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