Mireille Smets

No ORCID on file · 9 papers in corpus · active 1996-2010

Study types

  • article 4
  • review 4
  • case-report 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 8
  • infertility 4
  • endometrioma 2
  • adenomyosis 2
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
  • dysmenorrhea 1
  • dyspareunia 1
case-report 2010
High risk for neoplastic transformation of endometriosis in a carrier of Lynch syndrome
Familial cancer ·doi:10.1007/s10689-010-9321-1

Lynch syndrome is an autosomal dominant cancer-susceptibility disorder caused by mutations in DNA mismatch repair genes. Women with Lynch syndrome have an increased lifetime risk for endometrial and ovarian cancers. While there is evidence …

article 2004
Laparoscopic Treatment of Rectovaginal Septum Adenomyosis
·doi:10.5005/jp/books/10781_16
review 2004
Surgical management of endometriosis
Best practice & research. Clinical obstetrics & gynaecology ·doi:10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2004.03.004
review 2003
Laparoscopic Management of Peritoneal Endometriosis, Endometriotic Cysts, and Rectovaginal Adenomyosis
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·doi:10.1196/annals.1290.031

Peritoneal endometriosis is probably caused by the implantation of regurgitated menstrual cells. The ovarian endometrioma is the consequence of non-hormone-regulated bleeding from intraovarian epithelial inclusions after they have undergone…

review 2003
Pre- and Post-Surgical Management of Endometriosis
Seminars in reproductive medicine ·doi:10.1055/s-2003-41329

The efficacy of medical and surgical treatment of endometriosis-associated infertility and pelvic pain is a source of questions and controversies. Complete resolution of endometriosis is not yet possible, but therapy has essentially three m…

review 2002
The efficacy of medical and surgical treatment of endometriosis-associated infertility and pelvic pain
Gynecologic and obstetric investigation ·doi:10.1159/000066288

This article is a review of the efficacy of medical and surgical treatment of endometriosis-associated infertility and pelvic pain. Endometriosis is the cause of pelvic pain (dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia) and infertility in more than 35% of wo…

article 1998
Adenomyoseknoten des rektovaginalen septums: eine eigenen entität

Objective: Laparoscopic procedure with excision of deep fibrotic\nendometriotic nodules of the rectovaginal septum and histological\nstudy of the lesions. \nSetting:\nAn academic teaching hospital.\nPatients: A series of 500 patients underw…

article 1997
Recto vaginal septum adenomyotic nodules: a series of 500 cases
British journal of obstetrics and gynaecology ·doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.1997.tb12059.x

OBJECTIVE: Laparoscopic procedure with excision of deep fibrotic endometriotic nodules of the rectovaginal septum and histological study of the lesions. SETTING: An academic teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS: A series of 500 women undergoing …

article 1996
Large ovarian endometriomas
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/11.3.641

The management of large endometriomas was described in a series of 814 patients. Combined therapy using gonadotrophin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) and carbon dioxide laser laparoscopy was proposed. Drainage and GnRHa for 12 weeks provo…