Seema A. Tirlapur

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus · active 2012-2018

Study types

  • article 2
  • review 2

Condition tags

  • chronic_pelvic_pain 3
  • mesh:D004715 2
  • endometriosis 2
  • mesh:D017699 2
  • endometrioma 1
article 2018
MRI versus laparoscopy to diagnose the main causes of chronic pelvic pain in women: a test-accuracy study and economic evaluation
Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) ·doi:10.3310/hta22400

Background Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) symptoms in women are variable and non-specific; establishing a differential diagnosis can be hard. A diagnostic laparoscopy is often performed, although a prior magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan may…

review 2015
Chronic pelvic pain: how does noninvasive imaging compare with diagnostic laparoscopy?
Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology ·doi:10.1097/GCO.0000000000000222

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) has an annual prevalence of 38/1000 in the UK, with coexisting pathologies often present. Diagnostic laparoscopy has long been the gold standard diagnostic test, but with up to 40% showing no abn…

article 2013
How do we define the term idiopathic?
·doi:10.1097/gco.0000000000000025

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The term idiopathic is often used to describe a disease with no identifiable cause. It may be a diagnosis of exclusion; however, what specific minimum investigations need to be performed to define idiopathic is not always…

review 2012
Future research in gynaecological surgery
Best practice & research. Clinical obstetrics & gynaecology ·doi:10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2012.12.001