Open AccessEndometriosis as a scientific, medical and social problem
Author(s) -
L.V. Adamyan,
Ekaterina L. Yarotskaya,
ER Tkachenko
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
žurnalʺ akušerstva i ženskihʺ boleznej
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1684-0461
pISSN - 1683-9366
DOI - 10.17816/jowd86606
Subject(s) - endometriosis , medicine , pelvic pain , menstrual cycle , disease , variety (cybernetics) , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , gynecology , surgery , artificial intelligence , hormone , computer science
Endometriosis is characterized by a variety of forms and variants of the clinical course, paradoxical aspects of etiopathogenesis. Many years of our own experience and analysis of the work of the Russian Association of Endometriosis indicate that this disease is a serious social problem due to the prevalence of such symptoms as debilitating chronic or cyclic pelvic pain, reproductive dysfunction and menstrual cycle in its clinical picture.