title: [Congenital cervico-vaginal atresia and pelvic endometriosis. Clinical case and review of the literature].
abstract: Congenital cervico-vaginal atresia is a rare malformation; the presence of a functioning endometrium combined with this anomaly causes a retrograde menstruation and then a greater likelihood of endometriosis. Up to the present literature relates only thirteen cases in which congenital cervico-vaginal atresia was combined with a functioning endometrium. Primary amenorrhea and cyclic, cramping lower abdominal pain was the common symptoms of all the patients. In this work we report a new case of such pathology in a 23 old woman affected also by harmonic nanism. After the review of the literature the embryologic mechanisms involved in lower Mullerian tract malformations, the surgical treatment and the mechanism of formation of endometriosis in association with an outflow tract obstruction are discussed.
authors.affiliation: II. Klinik für Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe, Bari-Universität--Italien.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lucisano
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: D'Aries
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Misasi
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ceci
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000002:abnormalities*; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000151:congenital* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D010048:Ovarian Cysts / Q000151:congenital / Q000601:surgery; D010052:Ovariectomy; D010386:Pelvic Neoplasms / Q000151:congenital* / Q000601:surgery; D014621:Vagina / Q000002:abnormalities*
vernacular_title: Angeborene zerviko-vaginale Atresie und Beckenendometriose. Klinischer Fall und Literaturübersicht.