Diagnosis of Endometriosis

The diagnosis of endometriosis is based on the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterine cavity and direct or indirect evidence of cyclic bleeding. Clinically three entities can be distinguished: the peritoneal implant, the endometrial cyst and the deep-nodular lesion. Laparoscopy and biopsy remain the gold standard for diagnosis, but in addition attention should be paid to the detection of functional activity, such as bleeding, by non-invasive techniques.

• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Seminars in Reproductive Endocrinology

• Publication date

  1997-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1055/s-2008-1068752PMID 9383831
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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