oophoritis

In this context, it replaces the terms oophoritis and salpingitis.

Oophoritis is an inflammation of the ovaries.

An example is oophoritis.

Histologic evaluation of the ovary is the only way to diagnose autoimmune oophoritis with certainty [ 17 ] .

Clinicians are in need of an accurate method for the diagnosis of autoimmune oophoritis, a test with proven sensitivity and specificity [ 15 ] .

Because little is known about the pathophysiology of human autoimmune oophoritis, experimental animal models have been used to gain insight into possible mechanisms [ 22 23 ] .

Gynäkologische Mittheilungen, besonders über die chronische oophoritis und über Neurosen, erzeugt durch Krankheiten der weiblichen Sexualorgane.

It is often used synonymously with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), although PID lacks an accurate definition and can refer to several diseases of the female upper genital tract, such as endometritis, oophoritis, myometritis, parametritis and infection in the pelvic peritoneum.