Intensive care medicine

Pelvic pain

Biology

Surgery

Genetics

Bioinformatics

Endometriosis

Infertility

Gynecology

Medicine

Disease

Pathogenesis

Pregnancy

Pathology

F1000Research

<ns4:p>Endometriosis is an enigmatic disease that could start at birth. Its pathogenesis is supported by different theories. Accumulating facts relate it to a multigenic disorder. In this review of recent publications, the principal symptoms of the disease, pain and infertility, as well as its pathogenesis, diagnosis, and classification will be addressed. Endometriosis presents three main variants: superficial peritoneal disease, deep infiltrating endometriosis, and ovarian endometriomas. The management of the disease, surgery, and medical and alternative therapies will be discussed. Special reference will be made to the quality of surgery and how to understand patients with endometriosis and endometriosis.</ns4:p>

Endometriosis: advances and controversies in classification, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment