STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine the impact of a chronic pelvic pain (CPP) Toolkit on patient satisfaction. DESIGN: Single-center, prospective, randomized control pilot study. SETTING: Outpatient clinics within the Division of Minimally Inva…
Endometriosis is a common disease that affects 6%-10% of reproductive-age women. There are many approaches to the treatment of endometriosis ranging from medical therapy to extirpative surgery. For a woman desiring fertility-sparing treatme…
Endometriosis is a debilitating disease and a significant health problem for women of reproductive age. Extirpative surgery of endometriosis involves cytoreduction of visible endometriosis. Although surgical management is an important treat…
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Women with endometriosis often report onset of symptoms during adolescence; however, the diagnosis of endometriosis is often delayed. The aim of this study was to describe the experience of adolescents who underwe…
Chronic pelvic pain is a common medical condition affecting up to 16 percent of reproductive-aged women. There are many possible etiologies of chronic pelvic pain ranging from gynecologic to non-gynecologic. Treatment is based on the theori…
The cause of noncyclical chronic pelvic pain (CPP) in many women is unknown: 30% have no identifiable pelvic pathology, and in those who do the relationship of CPP and the pathology is often unclear. Moreover, epidemiologic studies demonstr…
Study objectivesTo report the feasibility and description of robot-assisted presacral neurectomy (RPSN) and to compare outcomes with laparoscopic presacral neurectomy (LPSN).DesignProspective case series (Canadian Task Force classification …
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: To report the feasibility and safety of the use of a novel energy source that uses an electrically neutral beam of pure argon plasma for the laparoscopic management of endometriosis. METHODS: In this prospective p…