L. Joseph Melton

Some clinicians have recommended prophylactic oophorectomy at the time of hysterectomy to reduce the risk for ovarian cancer. Previous estimates for risk for subsequent oophorectomy in women who have ovarian preservation at hysterectomy ran…

ObjectiveTo determine whether women with pelvic endometriosis are at increased fracture risk.DesignHistorical cohort study.SettingPopulation-based investigation using the data resources of the Rochester Epidemiology Project.Patient(s)From O…

OBJECTIVE: We examined whether widespread use of laparoscopy was accompanied by increased diagnosis of asymptomatic endometriosis, inflated rates of diagnosis, or changes in the clinical spectrum of disease. DESIGN: Population-based cohort…

Houston, Diana E. PhD; Noller, Kenneth L. MD; Melton, L Joseph III MD; Selwyn, Beatrice J. ScD Author Information

To the authors' knowledge, the incidence pelvic endometriosis in the general female population has not been previously reported. The purpose of the present study was to determine the incidence rate of diagnosed pelvic endometriosis among wh…

To test the widely accepted--but not well-supported--impression that endometriosis and infertility are associated, we compared the prevalence of endometriosis visualized at laparoscopy in 100 patients being evaluated for infertility and in …