Platteeuw L

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
review 2021
Acute haemoperitoneum caused by endometriosis infiltrating the uterine artery - Two case reports and a literature review
Facts, views & vision in ObGyn ·doi:10.52054/fvvo.13.3.023

Objective: We report 2 cases of haemoperitoneum due to a bleeding of the uterine artery caused by infiltrating endometriosis. We have also conducted a literature review on endometriosis-related intra-abdominal haemorrhage and wrote a practi…

2019
The rationale of opportunistic bilateral salpingectomies (OBS) during benign gynaecological and obstetric surgery: a consensus text of the Flemish Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (VVOG).
Facts, views & vision in ObGyn

Ovarian cancer (OC), is a disease difficult to diagnose in an early stage implicating a poor prognosis. The 5-year overall survival in Belgium has not changed in the last 18 years and remains 44 %. There is no effective screening method (se…

review 2014
Novel agents for the medical treatment of endometriosis
Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology ·doi:10.1097/gco.0000000000000084

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Current medical treatments for endometriosis-associated pain, including oral contraceptives, progestins and GnRH agonists, are partially effective and have significant side-effects. The purpose of this review is to presen…