Magos AL

No ORCID on file · 7 papers in corpus · active 1989-1999

Study types

  • article 3
  • review 3

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 2
  • dysmenorrhea 1
  • adenomyosis 1
article 1999
How long does laparoscopic surgery really take? Lessons learned from 1000 operative laparoscopies
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/14.1.39

The purpose of this study was to assess the operating time of the most common gynaecological laparoscopic procedures. We analysed retrospectively 1000 consecutive operative laparoscopies on a procedure-by-procedure basis. Diagnostic laparos…

review 1997
4 Indications and alternatives to hysterectomy
Bailliere's clinical obstetrics and gynaecology ·doi:10.1016/s0950-3552(97)80050-8

Hysterectomy is the commonest major operation performed by gynaecologists and is the definitive cure for many of it's indications which include dysfunctional uterine bleeding, fibroids, utero-vaginal prolapse, endometriosis and adenomyosis,…

article 1997
Does endometrial resection help dysmenorrhea?
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica ·doi:10.1111/j.1600-0412.1997.tb07856.x

BACKGROUND: Menorrhagia is a common symptom and is often associated with dysmenorrhea. METHODS: The effect of transcervical resection of the endometrium (TCRE) on dysmenorrhea associated with menorrhagia was investigated in a prospective st…

review 1990
Management of menorrhagia.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) ·doi:10.1136/bmj.300.6739.1537

mittees, and travellers themselves. Such recommendations are more than pious hopes: the report describes various health and local authority initiatives in Essex, Medway, east London, East Anglia, Sheffield, and Liverpool as examples of good…

review 1989
1 The development of laparoscopic surgery
Bailliere's clinical obstetrics and gynaecology ·doi:10.1016/s0950-3552(89)80003-3

For centuries people have been trying to look inside the abdomen but it is only relatively recently that the technology has been available to make this a meaningful possibility. Major milestones have included safe peritoneal insufflation, c…

article 1989
Managing gynaecological emergencies with laparoscopy.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) ·doi:10.1136/bmj.299.6695.371

A consecutive series of 49 women (50 procedures), whose conditions were haemodynamically stable, presenting with acute lower abdominal pain, pelvic tenderness, and either a urine concentration of greater than 50 U/l beta human chorionic gon…

1989
Transcervical resection of endometrium in women with menorrhagia.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) ·doi:10.1136/bmj.298.6682.1209

As an alternative to hysterectomy 16 women with menorrhagia were treated with hysteroscopic transcervical resection of the endometrium with an unmodified urological resectoscope. Twelve patients requested total resection of the endometrial …