PurposeThis study was undertaken to evaluate the prevalence of endometriosis in infertile women of couples with non-male factor infertility.MethodsA retrospective validation analysis was carried out of consecutive women of infertile couples…
Abstract Introduction The clinical presentation of endometriosis is extremely varied. Because endometriosis symptoms may overlap with symptoms caused by gastroenterological disorders, this can lead to misdiagnosis and a considerable delay i…
PurposeWe aimed to assess post-operative complications based on the Clavien-Dindo classification system following routine laparoscopic treatment of all stages of endometriosis.MethodsA retrospective cohort study was carried out to identify …
PURPOSE: To determine risk factors for unexpected coexistent endometriosis in laparoscopic myomectomy for symptomatic uterine leiomyomas. METHODS: This was a single-centre, retrospective cohort study conducted at a University Women's Hospi…
PurposeHysterectomy for benign conditions can be combined with bilateral salpingectomy to prevent re-intervention for malignant or benign fallopian tube pathologies. The objective of this study was to evaluate the benefit of prophylactic bi…
PurposeTo evaluate the use of p53-autoantibodies (p53-aab) for monitoring minimal disease after standard therapy of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC).MethodsRetrospective analysis of p53-aab in preoperative and long-term follow-up se…
ObjectiveEven the common mild forms of endometriosis can strongly affect quality of life due to dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, dyschezia, or subfertility. We compared the effectiveness of the two laparoscopic methods, coagulation versus excisio…
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is common in women of childbearing age, whereas involvement of the rectosigmoid requiring resection is rare. Laparoscopy has become a standard procedure in the management of endometriosis. The optimum way to diagno…
BACKGROUND: We wanted to establish a technique of laparoscopically assisted radical vaginal surgery for deep endometriosis of the rectovaginal septum with extensive rectal involvement. TECHNIQUE: The procedure is started by vaginally excisi…