[Internal endometriosis from personal material]

The authors have presented one hundred cases of internal endometriosis of the uterus--adenomyosis recognized by means of the histopathological examination. The coexistence of pathological changes in the reproductive organs of the patients with internal endometriosis has been evaluated. In the tested material in 58% of cases adenomyosis coexisted with the uterine myomas and in 31% of cases with the polycystic ovaries. In the 19 cases the internal endometriosis was concomitant with the malignant pathological changes, which in 8 cases were diagnosed as the endometrial carcinoma. In the histopathological evaluation of the endometrium of the women with internal endometriosis the most frequently found changes were the proliferative ones (29%). In 20 cases the endometrial hyperplasia was recognized, in 3 of them there occurred the adenomatosis type.