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

The efficacy of medical and surgical treatment of endometriosis-associated infertility and pelvic pain is a source of ongoing controversy. Complete resolution of endometriosis is not yet possible and current therapy has three main objective…

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…