Tasuku Harada
Editor

2014

Pathogenesis and Treatment

Endometriosis remains an enigmatic disease despite a long history of research into its basic science and clinical aspects. Sampson published his pioneer article in 1927 theorizing that retrograde menstruation may cause peritoneal endometriosis. Since that time, researchers throughout the world have wrestled with the mysteries of the disease. In this book, we bring you a compendium of the present understanding of the pathogenesis of endometriosis as well as how this information may be applied in current therapies.