Ivo Brosens

To the Editor: Ureteral obstruction is an infrequent but serious complication of pelvic endometriosis. Often, endometriosis is not identified as the cause of the obstruction before surgery. Hormona...

OBJECTIVE: To describe and evaluate the surgical treatment of large ovarian endometriomas by an extraovarian endosurgical technique. DESIGN: Prospective case series study. SETTING: University center and tertiary referral center for endosc…

Journal Article Classification of endometriosis:Endoscopic exploration and classification of the chocolate cysts Get access Ivo A. Brosens Ivo A. Brosens University Hospital GasthuisbergB 3000 Leuven, Belgium Search for other works by this …

Journal Article Is mild endometriosis a progressive disease? Get access Ivo A. Brosens Ivo A. Brosens Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital GasthuisbergB-3000 Leuven, Belgium Search for other works by this author on:…

The current management of endometriosis includes expectant, medical, surgical and combined therapies and the selection is based on the staging of the disease proposed by the American Fertility Society (AFS). This approach, however, has prov…

Today's clinical challenge of endometriosis is to know when Its presence can be called a disease and therefore to decide when treatment is Indicated. The evolution of endometrkasls is presented as a cycle which can derail. Local pelvic fact…

Journal Article Improving the classification of endometriosis Get access I. Brosens, I. Brosens 1 1To whom correspondence should be addressed Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar J. Donnez, J. Donn…

This volume provides a review of current knowledge about endometriosis. The book - which is the official proceedings of the 3rd World Congress on Endometriosis (held in Brussels in June 1992) - brings together many of the world's leading ex…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate changes in peritoneal endometriosis by the type of lesion in comparison with the scoring system of the revised American Fertility Society (AFS) classification. DESIGN: Prospective evaluation at laparoscopy before and…

Endometriosis is a disease affecting fertility in many women. However, the mere presence of what is defined as endometriosis cannot be accepted per se as a cause of infertility or an indication for therapy. In the minimal or mild stage the …

The history of endometriosis is reviewed in the light of today's clinical and pathological knowledge of this disease. Prior to Sampson's report in 1921, attention was focused on the enclosed type of endometriosis, sited deep in the pelvis a…

Salpingoscopy gives detailed visual information on the mucosal pattern of the tubal ampulla as far as the isthmoampullary junction. With experience it takes 10 minutes to perform salpingoscopy on both sides and with an additional dye test a…