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Ask an Endo Surgeon: How Often is Endometriosis Found Outside of the Pelvis? Dr. Haverland

Dr. Rachael Haverland, MD, MS, FACOG is passionate about helping women feel their best by resolving their infertility and pelvic pain through endometriosis excision surgery. Possessing an extensive educational background—which includes a prominent fellowship at the Mayo Clinic among other subspecialty training tenures—Dr. Haverland is uniquely qualified to provide care in her areas of focus: pelvic pain, endometriosis, uterine fibroids, and pelvic floor dysfunction. At Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine, our pelvic pain specialists provide a functional, rehab approach to pelvic pain. When you visit one of our offices, you spend an hour with your doctor reviewing in detail your medical history and symptoms. Then, we perform an internal exam (no speculum) to evaluate your nerves and muscles. Together, we'll discuss an individual treatment plan that gets to the root cause of your pain and helps you to feel better. The best part: you can begin treatment the same day! At PRM, our mission is to decrease the time patients are suffering from pelvic pain symptoms. LEARN MORE: https://www.pelvicrehabilitation.com/ JOIN OUR COMMUNITY and get in on the discussions happening: ✨ Facebook -   / pelvicrehabilitation   ✨ Instagram -   / pelvicrehabilitation   ✨ Twitter -   / pelvicrehab   #PelvicRehabilitationMedicine #endometriosis ***** Hello, I'm Dr. Rachael Haverland and I'm answering questions. Today our question from you is, how often is endometriosis identified outside of the pelvis? And we call this extra pelvic disease. And it's actually very common, more common than you might think. It's just very important for your surgeon to be able to look for it and identify it. So areas that endometriosis has been found, there's case studies of it being found in the nose and the brain and the thoracic cavity around your lungs more commonly if it's found in the, in the thoracic cavity, more commonly on the right. But you can also have endometriosis has been found in the stomach, for example. The abdominal wall, a lot of the times you can feel abdominal wall masses. This can be spread from c-sections from prior endometriosis laparoscopies. Sometimes it's spread without having surgery, but sometimes if it's on the abdominal wall, you can feel, you can feel a mass underneath the skin. They may have cyclic bleeding from these areas as well. Our studies show that, maybe 12% up to 15% of endometriosis is found outside of the pelvis, but it's important to make sure that your surgeon knows how to identify it and more importantly, to look for it.