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In this report on the therapeutic results in patients with moderate and severe endometriosis treated by operative laser laparoscopy, we also present a comparative analysis of cost and duration of hospitalization and of convalescence in comp…

Human menopausal gonadotropin (hMG) superovulation combined with washed intrauterine insemination (IUI) has been advocated for the treatment of various forms of infertility when more traditional therapy has failed. To assess the relative ef…

Endometriosis is often debilitating and can adversely affect fertility. Medical management has largely consisted of hormonal therapy, employing the entire spectrum of sex steroids, singly or in combination, and has primarily aimed to reliev…

After initial videolaseroscopy for the treatment of endometriosis-associated infertility, 157 patients underwent a second-look laparoscopy to evaluate and treat recurrence of disease and/or adhesions. The patients were divided into two grou…

Medroxyprogesterone acetate was administered orally at the daily dose of 50 mg for four months to 21 symptomatic women with moderate to severe endometriosis, staged according to the American Fertility Society classification. The efficacy of…

Conservative or radical surgical treatment, steroidal hormones to produce pseudopregnancy, and danazol are all being used to relieve the symptoms of endometriosis or to treat the infertility that frequently accompanies it. The choice of the…

Cul-de-sac fluid collected at laparoscopy from 58 women during various stages of the menstrual cycle was evaluated by volume and by estradiol and progesterone content. Volumes were consistently higher in the third cycle week, especially wit…