Journal of investigative surgery : the official journal of the Academy of Surgical Research

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate short-term clinical outcomes, surgeon-reported fatigue, and staff user experience associated with a multifunctional operative support arm in reproductive laparoscopic surgery. DESIGN: Single-center, parallel-group ra…

BACKGROUND: This retrospective study compared the perioperative outcomes of vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (V-NOTES) and total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This analysis included 62 patie…

OBJECTIVE: The main purpose of the study was to explore the clinicopathological features and survival outcomes of patients with cervical cancer (CC) and adenomyosis and without the latter and to gain insight into the timely association betw…

Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory gynecologic disease characterized by the presence and growth of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterine cavity, with an estimated prevalence of 10% in re...

AIM: The etiology of endometriosis is complex and various theories have been postulated. Endometriosis pathogenesis involves genetic susceptibility, immunologic alterations and inflammatory prerequisite pathways. In this pilot experimental …

PURPOSE: Endometriosis is a disease that affects 6-10% of the female population, mainly women of reproductive age, and causes a variety of cyclic symptoms. Deep infiltrating endometriosis and in particular bowel involvement presents a chall…

Intraoperative fluorescence may allow improvements to existing surgical procedures or offer scope for new operations. Despite articles describing its use dating back more than a decade, its emergence as a commonly used adjunct is still anti…

Approximately 10% of women of reproductive age suffer from endometriosis, a potentially painful disease process and important cause of female infertility. Raloxifene, a commercially available SERM (selective estrogen receptor modulator) com…