Adenomyosis: What is New?
Author(s) -
Levent M. Şentürk,
Metehan İmamoğlu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
women s health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.363
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1745-5065
pISSN - 1745-5057
DOI - 10.2217/whe.15.60
Subject(s) - adenomyosis , medicine , myometrium , gynecology , endometrium , obstetrics , population , affect (linguistics) , stroma , endometriosis , pathology , uterus , immunohistochemistry , environmental health , linguistics , philosophy
Adenomyosis is described as the benign invasion of endometrium into the myometrium, with endometrial glands and stroma surrounded by the hypertrophic and hyperplastic myometrium. It may affect 20% of female population and most widely seen among perimenopausal and multiparous women. Its etiopathogenesis, diagnosis, clinical findings and current various treatment options will be discussed in this article.
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