Philippe R. Koninckx
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· 149 papers in corpus
· active 1978-2026
Study types
- article 83
- review 27
- letter 14
- book-chapter 8
- editorial 7
Condition tags
- endometriosis 136
- infertility 17
- chronic_pelvic_pain 12
- dysmenorrhea 6
- adenomyosis 6
- bowel_endometriosis 3
- dyspareunia 2
- endometrioma 1
- bladder_endometriosis 1
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letter
2021
editorial
2021
Arya and Burks (1Arya S. Burks H.R. Juvenile cystic adenomyoma, a rare diagnostic challenge: case reports and literature review.F S Rep. 2021; 2: 166-171Google Scholar) continue the long debate about acquired and congenital forms of Mülleri…
editorial
2021
review
2021
Understanding the pathophysiology of endometriosis is changing our diagnosis and treatment. Endometriosis lesions are clones of specific cells, with variable characteristics as aromatase activity and progesterone resistance. Therefore the G…
article
2021
Peritoneal fluid in ovulatory women is an ovarian exudate with higher estrogen and progesterone concentrations than in plasma. In the follicular phase, progesterone concentrations are as high as plasma concentrations in the luteal phase. Af…
article
2021
The usefulness of a test is determined by the clinical interpretation of its sensitivity and specificity. The pitfalls of a test with a surgical endpoint are described in this article, taking the diagnosis of deep endometriosis by imaging a…
article
2021
article
2021
Background and Objective: The indication and techniques of endometriosis surgery changed rapidly over the last 40 years since better understanding the disease and an improved diagnosis. This review will therefore include a short discussion …
article
2021
Endometriosis and pelvic pain are associated. However, only half of the subtle and typical, and not all cystic and deep lesions are painful. The mechanism of the pain is explained by cyclical trauma and repair, an inflammatory reaction, act…
review
2021
article
2021
Background and Objective: to study the natural history of endometriosis. Materials and methods: the analysis of all women (n=2086) undergoing laparoscopy for pelvic pain and endometriosis between 1988 and 2011 at University Hospital Gasthui…
book-chapter
2020
article
2020
Cystic ovarian endometriosis is a cause pain and of infertility. For infertility, surgical treatment has been suggested for cysts larger than 3 or 4cm in diameter only. Surgical treatment is moreover postponed as long as possible or until p…
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2020
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2020
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2020
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2020
book-chapter
2020
editorial
2019
Statistical significance is used to analyse research findings and is together with biased free trials the cornerstone of evidence based medicine. However traditional statistics are based on the assumption that the population investigated is…
review
2019
Abstract Background To review women with symptomatic and clinically progressive endometriosis after menopause in the absence of estrogen intake or excessive systemic endogenous production. Design Seven case reports and a systematic review o…
editorial
2018
article
2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Laparoscopic surgical excision of bladder nodules has been demonstrated to be effective in relieving associated painful symptoms; the data are lacking concerning the impact of anterior compartment endometriosis on…
letter
2018
review
2018
article
2017
Objective: Postoperative adhesions occur in 80% of cases of gynecological surgery. Therefore evidence-based recommendations have been made to improve surgeons´ knowledge of postoperative adhesion formation and preventive strategies. The obj…