Thorben Ahrens, Cassia G T Silveira, Constanze Banz-Jansen, Achim Rody, Daniela Hornung
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is the evaluation of serum YB-1 levels in the diagnosis of endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN: Serum samples of 12 patients with histologically confirmed endometriosis and of 10 control patients were collected. Western blot analysis was used to assess serum YB-1 levels. Groups were compared with Student's t-test or, if not normally distributed, with the Mann-Whitney test. Sensitivity and specificity for the potential diagnostic performance of serum YB-1 were assessed by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves...
August 2015: European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology