OBJECTIVE: To provide health care professionals with an evidence-based approach to the management of endometriosis and its associated symptoms. TARGET POPULATION: Women and gender-diverse individuals affected by endometriosis. BENEFITS, H…
ObjectiveTo provide evidence-based recommendations for the management of chronic pelvic pain in females.Target populationThis guideline is specific to pelvic pain in adolescent and adult females and excluded literature that looked at pelvic…
IntroductionLocalized provoked vulvodynia (LPV) is a chronic condition characterized by pain in the vulvar vestibule, which can be provoked by pressure or touch and which is not tied to a clear underlying cause. Research into the etiology o…
OBJECTIVE: To serve as a pilot feasibility study for a randomized study of excision versus ablation in the treatment of endometriosis by (1) estimating the magnitude of change in symptoms after excision only at multiple referral centers and…
Compared with laparotomy, the primary advantage of laparoscopic surgery is good visualization of the entire abdominal cavity. An image is dispatched through a telescope to a camera, then a video processor unit, and finally to the monitor or…