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Diagnosis of endometriosis and adenomyosis: today and tomorrow
Back to the basics: the usefulness of the history and clinical exam
Sawsan As-Sanie, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Director, Minimally Invasive GYN Surgery & Fellowship Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
The University of Michigan
sassanie@umich.edu
“I was 23 when doctors diagnosed my condition, but I had been sick my whole life. Again and again, I was told that I was suffering from nothing more than stress — that it was all in my head.”
This is a common experience for young women....Repeatedly finding themselves ignored can chip away at their self‐confidence.
Over time, fear of being seen as whiny or weak led some young women to underreport their pain, making it even harder to get treatment.
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