Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Use machine learning to characterize the content of endometriosis online community posts and comments. DESIGN: Retrospective Descriptive Study. SETTING: Endometriosis online health communities (OHCs) on the platform Reddi…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of the Dual Wavelength Laser System (DWLS) diode laser on the treatment of ovarian endometrioma (OMA), with ablation and vaporization of the cystic capsule without performing the stripping tech…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of hysteroscopic suture fixation of the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) for the treatment of adenomyosis. DESIGN: A retrospective case series. SETTING: …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Although surgery is the gold standard treatment for pain refractory to medical management or partial occlusion owing to rectosigmoid endometriosis, surgical resection can be associated with major perioperative complications…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To describe how the knowledge from standard imaging practices can be translated into 3-dimensional visualization techniques and used in the surgical planning and management of endometriosis. DESIGN: Two case studies of pat…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Anatomic anomalies of the female reproductive genital tract affect approximately 5.5% of women [1]. The hemiuterus or class U4 by the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology / European Society for Gynaecologic…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess the duration needed for regaining normal bladder voiding function in patients with postoperative bladder dysfunction requiring intermittent self-catheterization after deep endometriosis surgery and identify risk f…

OBJECTIVE: To synthesize the terminology utilized in nerve-sparing surgical literature and propose standardized and nonconflicting terms to allow for consistent vocabulary. DESIGN: We performed a literature search on PubMed using the searc…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: The main objective is to describe the feasibility and report a single-center experience of a standardized laparoscopic modified radical hysterectomy technique among patients with severe endometriosis and pouch of Douglas ob…

OBJECTIVE: This study focuses on evaluating the effectiveness, safety and efficacy of 2 surgical tissue extraction methods for treating bowel endometriosis: natural orifice specimen extraction (NOSE) and minilaparotomy. DATA SOURCES: A sys…

The International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) and International Deep Endometriosis Analysis (IDEA) group, the European Endometriosis League (EEL), the European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE), the …

OBJECTIVE: No consensus currently exists regarding patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) instruments. This structured review was conducted to identify the PROMs used by randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluated surgical treatment…