Roxana Chapman

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus · active 1994-1997

Study types

  • article 3
  • review 1

Condition tags

  • adenomyosis 3
  • dysmenorrhea 1
  • endometriosis 1
  • infertility 1
  • dyspareunia 1
article 1997
An effective minimally invasive method of treating adenomyosis by interstitial laser photocoagulation with the KTP laser
·doi:10.1007/bf02763924
article 1997
Laser-induced interstitial thermotherapy (LITT) for treatment of uterine leiomyomas: 750 myomas were treated by LITT and the results over a five-year period are analyzed
·doi:10.1117/12.275092

Approximately 750 leiomyomas of 250 symptomatic patients were treated by LITT over a five-year period. Only 12% were lost to follow-up. Most were treated by a combination of the KTP/YAG laser, rarely by one or the other alone, and a few wit…

article 1997
Laser-induced interstitial thermotherapy (LITT) with the KTP 532 laser for the treatment of uterine adenomyosis
·doi:10.1117/12.275090

Adenomyosis is a condition in which the myometrium is infiltrated by endometrial glands and stroma. This results in myometrial hyperplasia, uterine enlargement and causes menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea and dyspareunia for which there is no know…

review 1994
Low-power interstitial photocoagulation of uterine leiomyomas by KTP/YAG laser: a review of 50 consecutive cases
·doi:10.1117/12.197607

Interstitial laser photocoagulation (ILP), which is a new method of low power laser destruction of tumors, has been used to treat laparoscopically 50 consecutive patients with symptomatic uterine leiomyomas which were difficult or impossibl…