Chronic pelvic pain, defined as cyclic or acyclic pain reported for a minimum of six months, is one of the most common gynecological symptoms and one of the most important in terms of social costs. From January 1987 to December 1991, 127 pa…
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the outcome of ultrasound-guided aspiration of ovarian endometriotic cysts. METHOD: Thirty-four patients with ovarian endometriomas were submitted to transvaginal (28 patients) or transabdominal (6 patients) ultrasou…
Endoscopic evaluation of the tubal mucosa has been shown to be an important prognostic factor in predicting the probability of a subsequent intrauterine pregnancy. A recent classification of the tubal mucosa lesions allows uniformity of eva…
Twenty-two women with endometriosis were treated with the luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist buserelin for 6 months. At second-look laparoscopy the mean score of endometriosis had decreased from 23.1 (SD 17.0) to 17.2 (SD …