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Endometriosis:these signs that can alert you

Endometriosis is a disease that was discovered in 1860 . It goes up. And yet, it is still difficult to understand the causes but above all, it is still difficult to diagnose . On average, it is only seven years after the appearance of the first symptoms that it would be detected. According to the Ministry of Health, 10% of women of childbearing age, i.e. 1.5 to 2.5 million women" . It is a disease that is, for the moment,incurable , inflammatory. Very concretely, it is anendometrial tissue which lies outside the uterine cavity . The endometrium migrates to the abdomen and creates lesions around the ovaries, but also the uterus and the bladder . Some women with endometriosis have their digestive system affected as well.

Diagnosing endometriosis

There are three kinds of endometriosis.Superficial endometriosis "which refers to the presence of ectopic endometrial implants located on the surface of the peritoneum" , ovarian endometriosis which manifests as “an ovarian cyst characterized by its chocolate-colored fluid content” and pelvic endometriosis deep which "corresponds to lesions that infiltrate deeply more than 5 mm below the surface of the peritoneum. Deep endometriosis can typically affect theuterosacral ligaments (50% of cases), the vaginal cul-de-sac posterior (15%), the intestine (20-25%), mainly represented by the front of the rectum and the rectosigmoid junction, the bladder (10%), the ureters (3%) and beyond the pelvic cavity, the sigmoid, the right colon, the appendix and the terminal ileum for the most frequent locations” , details endofrance.org.


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