Endometriosis is defined as the presence of the endometrium outside the endometrial cavity. If the ectopic mucosa is located within the endometrium, the disease is defined as endometriosis interna, or adenomyosis, whereas the localization o…
Operative laparoscopy has replaced the conventional approach by laparotomy to the treatment of most benign gynecological diseases (benign adnexal cysts, ectopic pregnancy, tubal infertility, polycystic ovarian disease, endometriosis, myomas…
OBJECTIVE: Our purpose was to evaluate the recurrence rate after laparoscopic excision of ovarian endometrioma. STUDY DESIGN: An unrandomized prospective clinical study was performed at 2 tertiary-care centers of 366 patients who had a min…
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the correlation between the severity of endometriosis-associated dysmenorrhea and the extent of the disease assessed both with a current classification system and with the number and type of endometriosis lesions. DE…
From April 1, 1995, to December 31, 1995, 45 patients undergoing diagnostic or operative laparoscopy for infertility, pelvic pain, or both, were found to have endometriosis. No woman had undergone any preoperative medical or surgical treatm…
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the stress hormone response after pelvic surgery performed by laparoscopy versus laparotomy. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: A tertiary care university hospital. PATIENTS: Ten women were scheduled to unde…
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare the efficacy of laparoscopy versus microsurgery by laparotomy in the treatment of ovarian endometriomas. DESIGN: Retrospective study with historical controls. SETTING: A tertiary university hospital. PATIENTS:…
It has been suggested that atypical, nonpigmented endometriotic lesions have an increased capacity to synthesize prostaglandin (PG)F2alpha compared with typical endometriosis, and could therefore represent the more active forms of the disea…
The aim of the present study is to compare the outcome of GnRH analog treatment versus expectant management in infertile patients with minimal and mild endometriosis. From January 1987 to December 1990, 14 patients with stage I and II endom…
From 1 July 1990 to 31 January 1994, 55 patients underwent operative laparoscopy for the excision of monolateral endometriomas. None of the patients had previously undergone surgery by laparotomy or laparoscopy. At the time of laparoscopy, …
Of 103 women undergoing laparoscopic excision of ovarian endometriomas, 41 patients were prescribed to 3 to 6 months therapy with GnRH analogs or danazol postoperatively and 62 received no additional treatment. No significant difference in …
Giorlandino, C.; Taramanni, C.; Muzii, L.; Santillo, E.; Nanni, C.; Vizzone, A. Author Information
Two-hundred-and-six patients newly diagnosed to have endometriosis at laparoscopy were evaluated in order to see if endometriosis-associated symptoms are proportional to the extent of the disease, as assessed using the Revised American Fert…
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the outcome of ultrasound-guided aspiration of ovarian endometriotic cysts. METHOD: Thirty-four patients with ovarian endometriomas were submitted to transvaginal (28 patients) or transabdominal (6 patients) ultrasou…
Endoscopic evaluation of the tubal mucosa has been shown to be an important prognostic factor in predicting the probability of a subsequent intrauterine pregnancy. A recent classification of the tubal mucosa lesions allows uniformity of eva…