By Selma OransayRobotic-assisted laparoscopy to manage severe diaphragmatic endometriosis
By Selma Oransay
Diaphragmatic endometriosis is a rare extrapelvic form of endometriosis, with specific symptoms experienced by 30%, such as shoulder, chest, arm, and right upper quadrant pain. An early diagnosis is vital to prevent the disease progressively toward the thoracic cavity, causing catamenial…
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Diagnosis and management of treatment in diaphragmatic endometriosis.
By Selma Oransay
Diaphragmatic endometriosis is a rare extra-pelvic type of deep endometriosis with a prevalence of 0,19% to 4,75. In symptomatic women, the symptoms are characterized by non-specific chest pain, shoulder pain, right upper quadrant abdominal pain, and pneumothorax, whereas 75% of…
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Current practice in robotic surgery for deep-infiltrating endometriosis
By Selma Oransay
Today, surgical excision of endometriotic lesions is the only cytoreductive procedure for managing endometriosis. Hormonal treatment may partly relieve the symptoms, but it suppresses rather than cytoreduction of the disease. Minimally invasive surgery is usually the most preferred method due…
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By Nasuhi Engin AydinNew visions on diaphragmatic endometriosis
By Nasuhi Engin Aydin
Elvin Piriyev and Thomas Römer from Academic Hospital Cologne Weyertal, Germany have published their retrospective analysis of diaphragm endometriosis in a recent issue of the European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. About 7-10% of reproductive-age women have endometriosis but diaphragm…
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Diaphragmatic Endometriosis: a Call for Awareness
By Nasuhi Engin Aydin
Dr. Pagano and colleagues from the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Bern, Switzerland, have published a prospective cohort study on diaphragmatic involvement in endometriosis patients in a recent issue of “The Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology”. Endometriosis is…
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The management of diaphragmatic endometriosis
By Selma Oransay
Thoracic endometriosis is a rare disease, and it is likely to have been underdiagnosed and underreported. Optimal diagnostic testing and management options are yet to be determined. Imaging for thoracic endometriosis is still in its infancy, and MRI only helps to…
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Diaphragmatic endometriosis
By Selma Oransay
Diaphragmatic endometriosis is a rare clinical condition that may show signs and symptoms like chest pain, right upper quadrant abdominal pain, shoulder pain, pleuritic pain, hemothorax, pneumothorax, hemoptysis, and thoracic endometriosis syndrome while the major part of the patients is…
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