{"paper_id":"3676f73c-aa78-4c87-be0f-ab0bc250dcfd","body_text":"Diagnostic laparoscopy findings in pelvic pain among the women attending Gynecology OPD at Dhulikhel Hospital\nKeywords:\nclinical examination, diagnostic laparoscopy, pelvic pain, ultrasonographyAbstract\nAims: To evaluate the laparoscopic findings in women with pelvic pain.\nMethods: A prospective study conducted in Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Dhulikhel Hospital from March 2017 to December 2018. All women with pelvic pain, ultrasound evaluation and laparoscopic procedure at the hospital were taken. Data entered in SPSS 23 and analyzed using descriptive parameters.\nResults: Maximum number of cases of pelvic pain belonged to 21-30 years, most of them were parous with mean duration of pain of 16.48±4 months. The mean age and parity of the patients was 34±5 years and 1.74 respectively. The most common complaint was dysmenorrhea (33.3%) followed by abnormal vaginal discharge (31.7%). On clinical examination, pelvic tenderness was observed in majority (21.7%) of cases.\nOn laparoscopic examination, normal finding were seen in 41.7% cases followed by pelvic inflammatory disease (19.2%), endometriosis (17.5%), pelvic adhesion (12.5%), retroverted uterus (2.5%). PCOS, pelvic congestion and fimbrial cyst were seen in 1.7% each. Pyosalphinx and twisted ovary were seen in 0.8% each.\nConclusions: Laparoscopy serves as diagnostic as well as a therapeutic modality of management in chronic pelvic pain.\nDownloads\nDownloads\nPublished\nHow to Cite\nIssue\nSection\nLicense\nCopyright (c) 2022 Arun Yadav, Suman Raj Tamrakar\nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.\nCopyright on any research article in the Nepal Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology is retained by the author(s).\nThe authors grant the Nepal Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.\nArticles in the Nepal Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology are Open Access articles published under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)\nThis license permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and it is not used for commercial purposes.","source_license":"CC0","license_restricted":false}