HEALTH OF WOMAN. 2019.1(137):44–47; doi 10.15574/HW.2019.137.44

Golyanovskiy О. V., Kluzko І. V., Gubar І. A., Kulchytsckyi D. V.
Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Kiev
Communal mortgage «Vishgorodska central district lіkarnya»

Postoperative scar endometriosis (PSE) is considered to be a rare form of extragenital endometriosis and some case reports or small case series are published in the literature. Most frequently PSE is diagnosed after cesarean sections although observations of the given pathology after transabdominal gynecological and surgical procedure are also described.

The authors present the case of preoperatively diagnosed and surgically treated PSE three years after cesarean section. The diagnosis was confirmed after morphological research of the removed macropreparation. There was no PSE recurrence in the long-term follow up period. We propose the literature review regarding the etiology, pathogenesis, particularities of the clinical signs, sensitivity and specificity of the radiological methods of diagnosis, as well as the principles of PSE surgical management.

Key words: extragenital endometriosis, endometriosis postoperative scar, cesarean section.

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