Objective To report a case of successful conservative treatment of a single rectovaginal fistula occurring after laparoscopic treatment for rectovaginal adenomyosis. Setting Gynaecology department at a university hospital. Subject A young h…
Objectives To confirm the feasibility and safety of laparoscopically assisted segmental sigmoid resection (LASSR) for sigmoid endometriosis. Setting Gynaecology and surgery departments at a university hospital. Subjects Between August 1997 …
Deep infiltrating endometriosis (deeper than 5 mm under the peritoneum) often takes the form of a nodular lesion (or 'adenomyotic nodule') consisting of smooth muscles and fibrosis with active glands and scanty stroma. Thus, among endometri…
Objectives To confirm the feasibility and safety of laparoscopic partial bladder excision. Setting Gynaecology department at a university hospital. Subjects Two patients with symptomatic bladder endometriosis. Interventions Ureteral cathete…
A series of 231 cases of deep-infiltrating endometriosis of the rectovaginal septum is presented. Laparoscopic procedures with excision of deep fibrotic endometriotic nodules were performed in all cases. In three cases, the bowel lumen was …
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the role of GnRH agonist (GnRH-a) and/or drainage in the management of large endometriomas. DESIGN: This prospective clinical study was conducted in a parallel and randomized design. SETTING: Department of Gynecolog…
To evaluate the stromal vascularization of different appearances of peritoneal endometriosis, biopsies were taken from peritoneal areas with endometriosis in a series of 135 infertile women and classified as typical (black), red, or white l…