J.E. CARTER

Chronic pelvic pain is a source of frustration to both the physician and the patient. Physicians have been ill equipped by their training to confront the multifaceted nature of the complaints of patients with chronic pelvic pain. Patients h…

Ten years of clinical evaluations of women with chronic pelvic pain resulted in concern that diagnostic laparoscopic surgery is performed too frequently in these patients. Of 500 women, the pain was due to urologic, myofascial, musculoskele…

Ninety-three women in whom conservative surgical therapy for chronic pelvic pain failed required hysterectomy for control of their disabling condition. In 22 of these 93 patients (24%), adenomyosis was the major pathologic finding. In 10 of…

One hundred patients were treated with laparoscopic techniques for chronic pelvic pain. These procedures included uterosacral nerve vaporization, resection and vaporization of endometriosis, hernia repair, appendectomy, presacral neurectomy…

The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy utilizing the contact-tip Nd:YAG laser. We performed laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy on 37 patients with extensive disease incl…