Farr Nezhat

Endometriosis is classically defined as the presence of endometrial glands and stroma in ectopic locations. Affecting from 6% to 10% of reproductive-aged women, endometriosis may result in dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain, and…

Presacral neurectomy is useful in the treatment of severe, disabling dysmenorrhea secondary to endometriosis and pelvic pain associated with pelvic inflammatory disease. The efficacy of presacral neurectomy for the relief of midline dysmeno…

OBJECTIVE: To describe 3 cases of peritoneal mesothelioma associated with endometriosis that were managed laparoscopically. DESIGN: Case series. SETTING: University and community hospitals. PATIENTS: Three women with well-differentiated …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery involves the introduction of instruments through a natural orifice into the peritoneal cavity to perform diagnostic and therapeutic surgical interventions. We report…

OBJECTIVE: To present a case of successful laparoscopic resection of adrenal endometriosis. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: University Hospital. PATIENT(S): Forty-eight-year-old woman with left-sided abdominal and flank pain. INTERVENTION…

Alternatives to hysterectomy such as medical treatment, uterine artery embolization (UAE), and ablative therapy have become available and widely used in the last 10 years. It is unclear if these alternatives are replacing hysterectomy or de…

This article reveals our surgical approach for treatment of a patient with severe pelvic and infiltrative bladder endometriosis with mucosal involvement using robotic-assisted laparoscopic excision and cystotomy repair. To our knowledge, th…

OBJECTIVE: To review the malignant potential of endometriosis based on epidemiologic, histopathologic, and molecular data. DESIGN: Literature review. RESULT(S): The pathogenesis of endometriosis remains unclear. The histopathologic develo…

OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the role of MRI as a preoperative diagnostic tool for leiomyoma and adenomyosis. METHOD: This is a retrospective chart review at a university-based hospital. The study included 1517 women who underwent hysterectomy …

OBJECTIVE: To analyze clinicopathologic patterns of early ovarian carcinoma. DESIGN: Retrospective chart and histopathology review. SETTING: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York and the Centre Jean Perrin, Clermont Ferrand, France. P…

OBJECTIVES: We compared the perioperative morbidity of laparoscopic hysterectomy for gynecologic oncologic (group A) and benign gynecologic (group B) indications at a single institution. METHODS: This is a retrospective analysis of 159 con…

Vaginal clear cell adenocarcinoma arising from pelvic endometriosis has not been reported in the literature. We report a case of a 50-year-old woman with stage I clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina who was found to have endometriosis ad…

BACKGROUND: Laparoscopic surgery has revolutionized the concept of minimally invasive surgery for the last 3 decades. Robotic-assisted surgery is one of the latest innovations in the field of minimally invasive surgery. Already, many proced…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To describe the feasibility and outcome of total laparoscopic radical hysterectomy with or without pelvic lymphadenectomy for patients with stage I cervical cancer or severe pelvic endometriosis using harmonic shears as the…

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine our experience with laparoscopic and laparoscopically assisted management of bowel endometriosis and to recommend treatment approaches, considering patient goals for both pain mitigation o…

OBJECTIVE: To report outcomes of laparoscopic management of patients with ovarian remnant (OR). DESIGN: Retrospective chart review. SETTING: Referral practice and tertiary medical center. PATIENT(S): Sixty-four patients with confirmed OR…