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...disease begins is something of a mystery. One theory ascribes it to "retrograde menstruation." Instead of flowing down through the cervix and vagina, some menstrual blood and tissue back up through the Fallopian tubes and spill out into the pelvic cavity (see chart). Normally this errant flow is harmlessly absorbed, but in some cases the stray tissue may implant itself outside the uterus and continue to grow. A second theory suggests that the disease arises from misplaced embryonic cells that have lain scattered around the abdominal cavity since birth. When the monthly hormonal cycles begin at puberty, says Dr. Howard...
...confirm that a patient has endometriosis, doctors look for the telltale tissue by peering into the pelvic cavity with a fiber-optic instrument called a laparoscope. After diagnosis, a number of treatments can be prescribed. One is pregnancy--if it is still feasible; the nine-month interruption of menstruation can help shrink misplaced endometrial tissue. Taking birth- control pills may also help, but more effective is a drug called danazol, a synthetic male hormone that stops ovulation and causes endometrial tissue to shrivel. But it can also produce acne, facial-hair growth, weight gain and other side effects...
Rigorous exercise and heavy smoking may reduce a woman's risk of infertility and pelvic cavity tumors, Harvard doctors announced in a report published last week...
Researchers estimate that 10 to 15 percent of all pre-menopausal and one third of all infertile women have endometriosis, Cramer said. In addition to infertility, the disease can cause chronic pelvic pain and abnormal growths on the ovaries...
...medical investigators worked in strict secrecy. Outside the third-floor multiroom lab at the Instituto Medico Legal, armed military policemen stood guard around the clock. Within days, the original five-man team of examiners had grown to seven; early on, they discovered signs of an injury in the pelvic area that might correspond to a broken hip Mengele reportedly suffered in a wartime accident (though Rolf Mengele said he knew of no such injury). After preliminary tests on the 208 bones before him, Coordinator Wilmes Roberto Teixeira reported that he had found nothing to suggest that the body...