Benoit Resch

OBJECTIVE: To compare differences in the postoperative pregnancy rate in women seeking to conceive and presenting with endometriomas larger than 3 cm in diameter, which were managed by ablation using plasma energy, cystectomy, or simple dra…

Study objectiveTo assess whether a liberal policy of preventive stoma (LPS) reduces the rate of rectovaginal fistulas in women with excision of deep endometriosis requiring concomitant vaginal and rectal sutures in comparison with a more re…

Study objectiveTo assess the risk of low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) between women managed by either disk excision or rectal resection for low rectal endometriosis.DesignRetrospective study of a prospective database.SettingUniversity…

STUDY QUESTION: What are the risk factors and prevalence of bowel fistula following surgical management of deep endometriosis infiltrating the rectosigmoid and how can it be managed? SUMMARY ANSWER: In patients managed for deep endometriosi…

Study objectiveTo assess the postoperative probabilities of pregnancy in patients with deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) and ≥2 previous in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) failures.DesignRetrospectiv…

Study objectiveTo compare the probability of postoperative pregnancy in infertile women with ovarian endometrioma larger than 3 cm in diameter, managed by either ablation using plasma energy or cystectomy.DesignA multicentric case-control s…

BackgroundTwo surgical approaches usually are used in the surgical management of deep infiltrating endometriosis of the rectum: the radical approach that mainly is based on colorectal resection and the conservative or symptom-guided approac…

functional outcomes associated with surgical management of deep rectovaginal endometriosis with rectal involvement: giving patients an informed choice

Study objectiveTo report the combined cystoscopic and laparoscopic approach in deep endometriosis with full-thickness infiltration of the bladder.DesignVideo (Canadian Task Force classification III).SettingUniversity hospital.PatientA 34-ye…

OBJECTIVES: To report the outcomes of surgical management of urinary tract endometriosis and discuss the choice between conservative and radical surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We reviewed data concerning women managed for ureteral or bladd…

BACKGROUND: To evaluate intra- and postoperative complications associated with laparoscopic management of rectal endometriosis by either colorectal segmental resection or nodule excision. METHODS: During 39 consecutive months, 46 women unde…

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to compare delayed functional digestive and urinary outcomes following two different surgical procedures used in the management of rectal endometriosis. METHODS: Women who had undergone surgical managem…

Using data from 27 women with deep rectal endometriosis, managed by segmental resection, we observed that in 89% of cases active glandular endometrial foci were responsible for a deeper infiltration of rectal layers than that of fibrosis an…

BACKGROUND: To argue the usefulness for performing total laparoscopic hysterectomy with primary uterine artery coagulation at its origin for a series of women presenting with an enlarged benign uterus. METHOD: Eighteen women having undergon…

ObjectiveTo compare the history of pain complaints of women presenting rectovaginal and rectal endometriosis to show that rectovaginal locations may progress to a rectal involvement of the disease.DesignRetrospective comparative study.Setti…