Doctors Are Finally Learning the Secrets of a Mysterious Disease
Popular Mechanics • • health
Key Points:
- Endometriosis, affecting about 10% of reproductive-age individuals with a uterus, is often under-diagnosed due to difficulties in detecting its common forms with scans; deep infiltrating endometriosis, a rarer and more severe type, spreads beyond the uterus and causes adhesions between organs.
- Diagnosis traditionally relies on invasive exploratory surgery, as MRIs, CT scans, and ultrasounds have limited effectiveness and many clinicians lack training to identify endometriosis via imaging.
- Swedish company Surgical Science developed the Endometriosis Simulation Module, a non-invasive ultrasound training tool that helps clinicians recognize deep infiltrating endometriosis by detecting adhesions through the "sliding sign" technique.
- The simulator improved clinicians' confidence by
