Characterisation of Microscopic Changes in Macroscopically Unaffected Peritoneum in Women with and without Endometriosis

Abstract

Study question: Is there a difference in the occurrence of occult microscopic endometriotic lesions in normal peritoneum between women with and without endometriosis and if so are there other differences in the structure of the peritoneum between these groups? 1986. then has more research on the topic but without finding any conclusions about the clinical significance. Therefore, OME could be a physiological phenomenon that occurs in women with and without could be early of real EM lesions. CD10, and Anti-Smooth Muscle Cell Actin (ASMA). Results: OME lesions were found in five of the 86 patients (5, 81%). One of these lesions was found in a woman without EM which is 4, 5% of the control group. In the group of women with EM, there were four patients with OME lesions which is 6, 3% of the cohort, so there was no statistically significant difference between these groups. Besides the OME lesions, there were immune cells found in the tissue of 12 women with EM (18, 8% of the EM cohort) but none in the control group. These findings did not correlate with the OME lesions.