It has become necessary to re - examine the relevance of diagnostic laparoscopy in the two-stage approach to surgical management of symptomatic women with higher stage endometriosis following emerging evidence demonstrating acceptable diagn…
that is characterized by the growth of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity 1 In developed countries, it occurs in up to 20% of women of reproductive age and is a common cause of pelvic pain and infertility
Transvaginal sonography (TVS) is now established as a first line imaging tool of choice for the preoperative assessment of endometriosis in women planning laparoscopy for surgical treatment of endometriosis.1,2 The evolution of TVS in the p…
It is now more than four decades since sonography was first used to evaluate the obstetric patient.1 At its beginning, the questions asked were basic. For example, is there a live pregnancy? Is there a singleton or a twin gestation? Where i…