PurposeTo determine if the menstrual cycle affects MR interpretation in patients with pelvic endometriosis.Materials and methodsThirty-one patients with either laparoscopically proven endometriosis, or a high clinical suspicion of deep infi…
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine whether use of heated humidified carbon dioxide as insufflation gas during gynecologic laparoscopy reduced postoperative pain and hypothermia. DESIGN: A randomized controlled trial (Canadian Task Force classif…
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare the effects of ropivacaine and saline on pain after laparoscopic excision of endometriosis. DESIGN: Randomized, double-blind, controlled trial (Canadian Task Force classification I). SETTING: Women's hospital. …
A woman with a history of numerous surgical episodes for treatment of aggressive endometriosis experienced rectal symptoms. She was prepared for the possibility of laparotomy with or without colostomy to relieve her symptoms. After extensiv…
Laparoscopic hysterectomy is a substitute for abdominal hysterectomy and not for vaginal hysterectomy. Most hysterectomies currently performed with an abdominal approach may be performed with laparoscopic dissection of part or all of the ab…
OBJECTIVE: To determine the feasibility and effectiveness of laparoscopically assisted hysterectomy. DESIGN: A prospective study of the planned surgical procedure was carried out by two teams, each with two gynaecologists, who were experie…