William M. Burke

•Extrauterine adenomyoma cannot be solely diagnosed on the basis of radiographic appearance.•There are five theories for the pathophysiology of extrauterine adenomyomas.•Surveillance and treatment range from none to ovarian suppression.

BACKGROUND: The selective estrogen receptor modulator tamoxifen is now widely used for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer. Tamoxifen use has been associated with a variety of gynecologic problems. Despite the frequency with which…

OBJECTIVE: To analyze factors associated with 30-day readmission among women who underwent hysterectomy for uterine cancer and benign indications. METHODS: We used the National Surgical Quality Improvement Project database to perform a coh…

OBJECTIVE: To perform an econometric analysis to examine the influence of procedure volume, variation in hospital accounting methodology, and use of various analytic methodologies on cost of robotically assisted hysterectomy for benign gyne…

OBJECTIVE: To perform a population-based analysis to compare the complications and cost of laparoscopic and robotically assisted adnexal surgery. METHODS: A nationwide database was used to analyze the use and outcomes of robotically assist…

There has been increasing enthusiasm for robotic gynecologic surgery in recent years. Most data supporting robotically assisted hysterectomy for benign gynecologic disease were from small studies conducted in single institutions or centers …

BACKGROUND: Tubo-ovarian abscess involvement of an endometrioma has been reported in cases of patients with polymicrobial sources such as Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, and obligate anaerobic bacteria; however, bacterial vagi…

The following retrospective case series evaluated the technique and feasibility of integrating robot-assisted technology in the performance of a laparoscopic myomectomy in order to overcome the limitations of conventional laparoscopy. We at…