Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Compare the difference in postoperative morbidity for benign total hysterectomy by indication. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort. SETTING: United States hospitals participating in the American College of Surgeons National Surg…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Women with adenomyosis may show a lower pregnancy rate and a higher miscarriage rate than healthy women. There is also a general agreement that leiomyomas, either submucosal or intramural, negatively affect fertility, when …

OBJECTIVE: This review aimed to compare isolated sciatic and sacral nerve root endometriosis in terms of anatomic distribution, patients' symptoms and history, diagnostics, treatments, and outcomes. DATA SOURCE: We searched PubMed, MEDLINE…

OBJECTIVE: To assess bowel function in women with deep infiltrating endometriosis according to surgical approach (radical vs conservative). DATA SOURCES: Five databases were searched from 1970 to September 2021 to retrieve studies comparin…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess the cost-effectiveness of different strategies, including the dienogest (DNG) and combined oral contraceptives (COC) therapy, for the prevention of endometriosis recurrence after surgery. DESIGN: A decision tree …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate tips and tricks for the successful execution of robotic-assisted resection of a large bladder trigone endometriosis nodule while preserving the ureters. DESIGN: Stepwise demonstration with narrated video foo…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To report a large series including women managed by disk excision using end-to-end anastomosis (EEA) circular transanal stapler to assess the feasibility of the technique, the features of nodules suitable for removal by dis…

A 43-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with prolonged menstruation after cesarean delivery for 14 years and intermenstrual bleeding for half a year. Magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasonography revealed a mass of 3.3 cm in diame…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether the addition of pharmacologic prophylaxis to mechanical prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism (VTE) is associated with changes in perioperative outcomes in hysterectomy for benign indications. DESIGN: …

OBJECTIVE: In the field of endometriosis, several classification, staging and reporting systems have been developed, but do clinicians routinely use these classification systems, which system do they use and what are the clinicians' motivat…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Evaluate inter-rater and intrarater reliability of a novel scoring tool for surgical complexity assessment of endoscopic hysterectomy. DESIGN: Validation study. SETTING: Academic medical center. PARTICIPANTS: Total of 11…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To highlight different surgical approaches for managing deep infiltrating endometriosis involving the rectosigmoid colon. DESIGN: Demonstration of specific surgical techniques with educational narrated video footage. SETT…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare postoperative complications and rectovaginal fistula rate in women undergoing excision of large rectovaginal endometriosis requiring concomitant excision of rectum and vagina during 2 time periods with differing …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess the pregnancy rate after surgery for colorectal endometriosis. DESIGN: A retrospective, single-center study performed from January 2014 to December 2019. SETTING: A university tertiary referral center. PATIENTS…

STUDY: Objective: To evaluate the impact of laparoscopic sclerotherapy on the management of endometrioma during surgery for deep infiltrative endometriosis (DIE). DESIGN: Observational study. SETTING: Tivoli-Ducos Clinic, Bordeaux. PATIE…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess whether complications incurred during hysterectomy for the treatment of endometriosis differ among racial-ethnic groups. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: American College of Surgeons National Surgica…

Schistosomiasis is a common endemic cause of abdominal pain outside the United States that can present with symptoms overlapping with endometriosis, a common cause of chronic pelvic pain in reproductive women. In this case, operative laparo…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess whether deep endometriosis surgery affects the bladder function. DESIGN: Prospective multicenter observational study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2). SETTING: Academic research centers. PATIENTS: Thir…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: The vaginal approach is the reference surgical route to perform hysterectomy for benign pathologies. Hysterectomy via transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (V-NOTES) is a new technique that would over…

OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate the technique of discoid excision of bowel endometriosis followed by closure of the bowel defect using sutures, without the application of the transanal stapler device. DESIGN: Stepwise demonstration of the techni…