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Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar
Print version ISSN 0138-6557On-line version ISSN 1561-3046
Abstract
RODRIGUEZ COLLAR, Tomás Lázaro. Diagnosis and treatment of vesical endometriosis. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2011, vol.40, n.1, pp.48-55. ISSN 0138-6557.
The endometriosis is the presence of active endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity affecting mainly to woman during the menopause and frequently is the infertility cause. Its location in the urinary tract is infrequent; the bladder is the organ more damaged by ureter. In present paper an update on the vesical endometriosis was carried out concerning the diagnosis and treatment. Thus, we made a bibliographic search in databases Hinari and Medline. It is very important to take into account this disease entity in the differential diagnosis of patient in fertile age, attending to consultation due to chronic pelvic pain of not specified origin. In this way and with the systematic use of transvaginal ultrasound in these cases, it will be possible to made an early diagnosis and will be applied a timely treatment from which the combined modality, the minimal access surgery and hormonal therapy is the more used nowadays.
Keywords : Vesical endometriosis; diagnosis; treatment.