TY - JOUR
T1 - Bladder endometriosis
T2 - Deep infiltrating endometriosis or adenomyosis?
AU - Fedele, Luigi
AU - Piazzola, Elena
AU - Raffaelli, Ricciarda
AU - Bianchi, Stefano
PY - 1998/5
Y1 - 1998/5
N2 - Objective: To describe the anatomopathologic characteristics of endometriosis infiltrating the bladder detrusor. Design: Descriptive anatomopathologic study. Setting: Tertiary care center for endometriosis. Patient(s): Four patients, aged 22-38 years, who underwent laparotomy for bladder endometriosis. Intervention(s): Surgical excision and pathologic analysis of bladder endometriotic nodules in four patients. Main Outcome Measure(s): Gross and microscopic characteristics of endometriotic nodules. Result(s): A nodule of adenomyosis on the anterior wall of the uterus, in continuity with the detrusor lesion, was excised in three patients. In the other patient, bladder endometriosis was continuous with a nodule that infiltrated the left parametrium and extended as far as the posterior leaf of the ipsilateral broad ligament. Microscopically, all of the lesions had a similar histologic pattern: loci of endometriosis scattered in the bladder wall. The main feature was the paucity of endometrial-type stroma, particularly in the bladder submucosa, where glands were almost always dilated and cystlike and were lined by flattened cells. Conclusion(s): Analysis of our patients, although it does not pinpoint the pathogenesis of the disease, seems to exclude the hypothesized intraperitoneal origin of endometriotic lesions of the bladder detrusor.
AB - Objective: To describe the anatomopathologic characteristics of endometriosis infiltrating the bladder detrusor. Design: Descriptive anatomopathologic study. Setting: Tertiary care center for endometriosis. Patient(s): Four patients, aged 22-38 years, who underwent laparotomy for bladder endometriosis. Intervention(s): Surgical excision and pathologic analysis of bladder endometriotic nodules in four patients. Main Outcome Measure(s): Gross and microscopic characteristics of endometriotic nodules. Result(s): A nodule of adenomyosis on the anterior wall of the uterus, in continuity with the detrusor lesion, was excised in three patients. In the other patient, bladder endometriosis was continuous with a nodule that infiltrated the left parametrium and extended as far as the posterior leaf of the ipsilateral broad ligament. Microscopically, all of the lesions had a similar histologic pattern: loci of endometriosis scattered in the bladder wall. The main feature was the paucity of endometrial-type stroma, particularly in the bladder submucosa, where glands were almost always dilated and cystlike and were lined by flattened cells. Conclusion(s): Analysis of our patients, although it does not pinpoint the pathogenesis of the disease, seems to exclude the hypothesized intraperitoneal origin of endometriotic lesions of the bladder detrusor.
KW - Adenomyosis
KW - Bladder
KW - Endometriosis
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U2 - 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00048-X
DO - 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00048-X
M3 - Article
C2 - 9591511
AN - SCOPUS:0032080327
VL - 69
SP - 972
EP - 975
JO - Fertility and Sterility
JF - Fertility and Sterility
SN - 0015-0282
IS - 5
ER -