L Joseph Melton

Some clinicians have recommended prophylactic oophorectomy at the time of hysterectomy to reduce the risk for ovarian cancer. Previous estimates for risk for subsequent oophorectomy in women who have ovarian preservation at hysterectomy ran…

OBJECTIVE: We examined whether widespread use of laparoscopy was accompanied by increased diagnosis of asymptomatic endometriosis, inflated rates of diagnosis, or changes in the clinical spectrum of disease. DESIGN: Population-based cohort…

Houston, Diana E. PhD; Noller, Kenneth L. MD; Melton, L Joseph III MD; Selwyn, Beatrice J. ScD Author Information

To the authors' knowledge, the incidence pelvic endometriosis in the general female population has not been previously reported. The purpose of the present study was to determine the incidence rate of diagnosed pelvic endometriosis among wh…