[Endometriosis and extra-uterine pregnancies]

Although endometriosis appears as a rare cause in long series of cases of extrauterine pregnancy, the study of pregnancies which survive after treatment of endometriosis show a significant increase of extrauterine pregnancy, especially in cases of proximal lesions. The authors thinks that careful anatomo-pathological examination of tubes resected because of extrauterine pregnancy undoubtedly permit a large number of endometriosis lesions to be found.