Endometriosis

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Test:

Laparoscopy (AB), ultrasound (AB or false N)

Sign:

Pelvic pain, backache, secondary dysmenor-rhoea, infertility, dyspareunia, symptoms aggra­vated by menstruation, rectal bleeding

Dd:

Pelvic inflammatory disease, ovarian cysts and neoplasms, uterine fibroids and myomas, bowel neoplasms

Phys:

Ectopic deposits of endometrial tissue