Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine factors associated with spontaneous conception leading to live birth in infertility patients after endometriosis surgery. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Multi-hospital health system of Catholic …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess the feasibility of percutaneous radiofrequency ablation (PRFA) of anterior abdominal wall endometriosis (AWE) lesions and to describe its efficacy on clinical symptoms and on the volume of the lesion. DESIGN: Int…

OBJECTIVE: This scoping review aims to evaluate recent studies that examine the relationship between dyspareunia and neurophysiologic factors, and to synthesize their results as it pertains to the development and treatment of introital/vulv…

OBJECTIVE: Immersive virtual reality (IVR) could be an innovative and promising approach for alleviating pelvic pain in women with endometriosis. The objective was to assess the effectiveness of active IVR in reducing endometriosis-associat…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the association between surgeon characteristics and postoperative surgical outcomes, including rates of complications, recurrence of symptoms, fertility outcomes, and need for reoperation for in…

OBJECTIVE: To develop a machine learning method for the automatic recognition of endometriosis lesions during laparoscopic surgery and evaluate its feasibility and performance. DESIGN: Collecting and annotating surgical videos and training…

OBJECTIVE: To present a case of surgical management of anastomotic dehiscence after laparoscopic bowel deep endometriosis resection. SETTING: Anastomosis leakage (AL) is defined as a defect of the integrity in a surgical junction between t…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between the endometriosis staging and the type and intensity of pain reported by patients, describing the pain intensity across different pain types. DATA SOURCES: On January 27, 2025, a systematic se…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess the association between patient primary language and route of hysterectomy. DESIGN: A retrospective cohort study was conducted using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's State Inpatient Database (SID) an…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To show that the laparoconversion in an emergency because of intraoperative complications does not require irreversibly abandoning the robotic procedure. SETTING: Tertiary referral center. PARTICIPANTS: A young patient wi…

OBJECTIVE: Bowel endometriosis affects 8% to 12% of women with infiltrating endometriosis, mostly involving the rectum and sigmoid [1]. Surgery is preferred when medical therapy fails or is contraindicated. Although segmental resection has …

OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate the laparoscopic management of bilateral round ligament endometriosis. SETTING: A tertiary referral center specializing in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery. PARTICIPANTS: An obese woman who had previously u…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Although cystectomy remains the gold standard for the surgical treatments of endometriomas, concerns about the negative effect on ovarian reserve are rising. Laser-CO2 vaporization of endometriomas has shown encouraging dat…

OBJECTIVE: To determine if surgical excision of suspected pelvic endometriosis patient's complaints of voiding dysfunction. DESIGN: This is a retrospective cohort study. SETTING: A large academic institution with a single urogynecologist …

Endometriosis is a chronic disease that is characterized by pain, infertility, and reduced quality of life. Despite varied treatment modalities, a high proportion of individuals experience debilitating symptoms and develop comorbid pain con…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare laparoscopic Ablation and Excision in terms of symptom and Quality of Life outcomes as perceived by endometriosis patients. DESIGN: A Cohort, Method comparison Questionnaire-based study. SETTING: Endometriosis-…

A 17 year-old 46,XX female patient with a history of urogenital reconstruction was found to have perineal endometriosis at the site of previously repaired vaginal stenosis. The patient presented in early childhood with a 2-cm congenital uro…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence of coexisting pelvic lesions in postcesarean bladder endometriosis (BE) and primary BE. If women with postcesarean BE exhibit a lower prevalence of coexistent endometriosis, it could be hypothesized …