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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Aravind Kuchkuntla, M.B.B.S[2]
Overview
Historical Perspective
- In the early 19th century, Rokitansky described the presence of functional endometrial tissue outside of the uterine cavity in patients with ovarian and endometrial cancers.
- In the 1920's, Cullen was the first to describe the histological features of endometrium in a patient with abdominal endometriosis and named the disease as adenomyoma.
- In the 1920's endometriosis was differentiated from adenomyosis and Rokitansky described a case series of 23 cases with chocolate cyst of the ovary.
- In the late 19th century, Sampson was the first to describe the responses of endometrium to the hormonal changes and proposed the theory of retrograde menstruation as the cause of endometriosis.