Umbilical endometriosis.
A 41-year-old woman with umbilical endometriosis is presented. The umbilical lesion is repeatedly painful and there is a bloody discharge simultaneous with the menstrual period. Treatment of umbilical endometriosis is by excision. Hormonal therapy results in its incomplete regression. Umbilical endometriosis is a very rare disease, but should be considered in the differential diagnosis of umbilical tumors.
Igawa
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Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
Ohura
T
T
Sugihara
T
T
Hosokawa
M
M
Kawamura
K
K
Kaneko
Y
Y
D000328:Adult; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008598:Menstruation; D014472:Umbilicus