Endometriosis and Endometriosis-Associated Ovarian Cancer (EAOC). Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Endometriosis is a gynecologic disease that affects over 10% of women of reproductive age causing pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, and infertility, resulting in significant disability and reduced quality of life. Very recent genetic studies have suggested that endometriosis is a clonal disease in the epithelium and its development is independent of stroma, providing new insight into the genesis of endometriosis. The endometrioid tissue lining may also react by epithelial atypical hyperplasia and even neoplasia, in a manner somehow similar to that in the uterine cavity and under the same hormonal influences.

publication date

  • January 1, 2020

Research

keywords

  • Endometriosis
  • Ovarian Neoplasms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85084627452

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/978-3-030-38474-6_5

PubMed ID

  • 32406029

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 1242