Marc R. Laufer
ORCID: 0000-0002-6295-987X
· 117 papers in corpus
case-report
2006
BACKGROUND: Chronic pelvic pain in adolescents accounts for 10% of outpatient gynecology visits, and 70% of adolescent patients whose pelvic pain is unresponsive to initial therapy have endometriosis. To date, there has been no published re…
2006
case-report
2005
OBJECTIVE: To identify endometriosis as a cause of chronic pelvic pain in premenarcheal girls without an obstructive anomaly of the reproductive tract. DESIGN: A case series. SETTING: Tertiary-care academic pediatric hospital. PATIENT(S)…
case-report
2005
Approximately two thirds of adolescent girls with pelvic pain that does not respond to medical treatment have endometriosis. The authors present 5 premenarcheal girls having chronic pelvic pain for longer than 6 months and a negative gastro…
review
2003
OBJECTIVES: To review the etiologies, diagnosis, and treatment options of adolescent endometriosis. METHODS: Review of publications relating to adolescent endometriosis. RESULTS: Endometriosis occurs in adolescents as young as 8 years of …
2000
review
1999
OBJECTIVE: To review the incidence and diagnosis of endometriosis in adolescents and to evaluate the surgical and medical treatment options for this special population. STUDY DESIGN: Literature research. RESULTS: Endometriosis is the most…
review
1998
OBJECTIVE: To review the impact of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRH-as) on bone mass in adolescents and options for GnRH-a with "add-back" for long-term therapy for adolescents with endometriosis not responding to conventional …
other
1998
OBJECTIVE: To define the clinical presentation and follow-up of women found to have endosalpingiosis. METHODS: Subjects included for retrospective study were identified as having had a pathologic diagnosis of endosalpingiosis. Those subjec…
1998
review
1998
Pelvic pain is common in adolescents and can result from a number of physiological and pathological etiologies, both gynecologic and nongynecologic in origin. The evaluation, diagnosis, and management of these conditions involve both medica…
other
1997
OBJECTIVE: To describe a new technique for improvement of visualization and identification of clear vesicles of endometriosis. DESIGN: A new descriptive technique. SETTING: Tertiary care center. PATIENT(S): Adolescent and adult women wit…
1997
observational
1997
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate adolescent girls with chronic pelvic pain not responding to conventional medical therapy, using advances in operative laparoscopy to determine endometriosis prevalence, clinical stage, and type of lesion. DESIG…
1997
1996
review
1992
Endometriosis is a disease process with great significance for adolescents and the clinicians caring tor them. This review examines current theories regarding the development of endometriosis, its differential diagnosis, short- and long-ter…