One of the most challenging clinical conditions that the gynecologist encounters in clinical practice is the management of patients with intrauterine adhesions (IUAs). The presence of IUAs were initially described by Heinrich Fritsch in 1894 ( ). It was not only until 1948 when Joseph Asherman described the association of structural amenorrhea with inactive endometrium due to stenosis of the internal cervical OS. He then published his landmark paper in 1950 entitled “ ” ( ) describing uterine adhesions causing obliteration of the intra-uterine cavity, generating the consequent amenorrhea naming this entity as Asherman’s Syndrome. The term “Asherman’s syndrome” and “intrauterine adhesions” are often used interchangeable to refer to the presence of intrauterine synechiae, although the syndrome requires the association of amenorrhea and infertility in the presence of IUAs. Several other terms such as uterine atresia, endometrial sclerosis and traumatic uterine atrophy are also frequently used to describe this clinical entity ( ).
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