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BackgroundLittle is known about the healthcare resource usage and costs for patients with cancer of unknown primary (CUP).ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to describe and quantify healthcare resource use and costs in Australia, 6 months p…

The INHAND (International Harmonization of Nomenclature and Diagnostic Criteria for Lesions Project (www.toxpath.org/inhand.asp) is a joint initiative of the Societies of Toxicologic Pathology from Europe (ESTP), Great Britain (BSTP), Japan…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess the outcome of aggressive but conservative laparoscopic surgery in the treatment of severe endometriosis involving the rectum. DESIGN: Retrospective study (Canadian Task Force classification III). SETTING: Endos…

OBJECTIVE: To consider and explain the possibility of difficulties in diagnosis of endometriosis at previous laparoscopy DESIGN: Retrospective patient record review. SETTING: The Endometriosis Care Centre of Australia and the private practi…

Drug therapy may be effective in controlling symptoms but the frequent coexistence of endometriosis and the lack of controlled studies make their efficacy difficult to quantify. Danazol IUD has been shown to reduce symptoms. Conservative su…

The details of surgical techniques for laparoscopic removal of endometriosis and adenomyosis are described briefly in textbooks and gynaecological journal articles. We have described a wide variety of techniques for the various procedures r…

The treatment of adenomyosis has been limited by the difficulty and delay associated with the diagnosis, often not until after hysterectomy. Magnetic resonance imaging, high resolution vaginal ultrasound and uterine biopsy have improved ear…

This review was undertaken to ascertain whether the low usage of laparoscopic surgery in gynaecology resulted from unacceptable complication rates and long operating times. The safety and efficacy of laparoscopic surgery has been compared t…

Chronic endometriosis is notoriously difficult to treat and many women become frustrated with their care. We established an Endometriosis Clinic as a co-operative venture between a group of gynecologists and a self-help group, the Endometri…

Twenty patients with Stage 2 to 4 endometriosis were referred to an Endometriosis Clinic with an average of 3.4 previous medical and surgical treatments. All were treated by peritoneal excision. Follow-up was for 9-36 months and 14 had a fu…

Alternatives to endometrial ablation include re-education of the 20% or more women complaining of menorrhagia whose blood loss is normal, less than 35 ml, and the use of an increasing variety of drugs to find an effective regime with minima…

Twenty-one patients with stage 3 or 4 endometriosis in the pouch of Douglas had combined laparovaginal surgery using the Maher abdominal wall elevator. Opening the pouch of Douglas at the beginning of the operation allowed the combined surg…

A laparoscopic minilaparotomy hysterectomy technique is described. An abdominal elevator allowed the use of an open 2 cm port in the lower abdomen to introduce the finger and instruments used for laparotomy. The technique was developed in 3…

The treatment of menorrhagia has changed significantly in two ways. Between 20% to 40% of women complaining of menorrhagia have normal to below normal blood loss and may avoid medical and surgical treatment by learning how to cope with mens…

Study objectiveTo diagnose adenomyosis by vaginal ultrasound and percutaneous or transcervical myometrial biopsy, and use the results to choose treatment and assess prognosis.DesignEvaluation of 31 consecutive women referred by other physic…

Endoscopy has replaced laparotomy in nearly all patients requiring surgical treatment of endometriosis. Controlled trials have shown electrosurgery is more effective than expectant treatment in the resolution of infertility due to peritonea…

Laparoscopic hysterectomy is a substitute for abdominal hysterectomy and not for vaginal hysterectomy. Most hysterectomies currently performed with an abdominal approach may be performed with laparoscopic dissection of part or all of the ab…

Minimally invasive surgery enables the avoidance of, preparation for, participation in, and treatment of complications following assisted reproductive technology (ART). The major recent changes are, the development of surgical techniques to…

Fifteen patients with dysmenorrhoea and menorrhagia refractory to medical treatment were referred for surgical treatment. Pre-operative diagnosis of adenomyosis was suggested by vaginal ultrasound in 13 patients and was confirmed pre-operat…

Laparoscopic culdotomy has been performed in 32 patients. The indications for the procedure included the removal of organs or tissue excised by operative laparoscopy, excision of vaginal endometriosis involving the pouch of Douglas and drai…

EDITORIAL COMMENT": This paper provides important data on dealing, via the laparoscope, with endometriosis involving the uterosacral ligaments and peritoneum of the pouch of Douglas in patients with pelvic pain and/or infertility. None of t…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the safety, accuracy and usefulness of percutaneous ultrasound guided uterine needle biopsy. SETTING: Transabdominal uterine biopsy was performed with an ultrasound directed biopsy gun. The biopsy was performed as a…

Vaginal ultrasonography has been carried out on 97 patients with menorrhagia who were either not responding to or not suitable for drug therapy. Ultrasonography demonstrated normal uteri in 33, benign uterine enlargement in 4, bicornuate ut…