British journal of obstetrics and gynaecology

OBJECTIVE: To ascertain whether the frequency of pelvic pain recurrence is reduced and time to symptoms recurrence is prolonged in women with symptomatic endometriosis undergoing conservative surgery and post-operative hormonal therapy comp…

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether corticotrophin releasing hormone plays a role in the regulation of tone in term nonlabouring human myometrium. SETTING: A teaching hospital research laboratory. SAMPLE: Thirty-seven women undergoing electiv…

High resolution imaging of gynaecological tissue offers the potential for identifying pathological changes at early stages when interventions are more effective. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a high resolution high speed optical ima…

OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of six years tibolone therapy on the genital tract in postmenopausal women against matched voluntary controls. DESIGN: Prospective, non-randomised, open label study of the efficacy of tibolone. METHODS: S…

OBJECTIVE: To describe the introduction of microwave endometrial ablation to clinical practice, and to report the outcomes three years after endometrial ablation. DESIGN: A clinical trial using prototype microwave endometrial ablation equi…

OBJECTIVE: To analyse the association between use of oral contraception and risk of pelvic endometriosis. DESIGN: We compared use of oral contraception in women with and without endometriosis. PARTICIPANTS: Eligible for the study were wom…

OBJECTIVES: To describe duration of symptoms and patterns of diagnosis and referral in women with chronic pelvic pain. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort analysis of the MediPlus UK Primary Care Database. SETTING: One hundred and thirty-six gen…

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence and incidence in primary care of chronic pelvic pain in women in the UK. DESIGN: Cross-sectional analysis of MediPlus UK Primary Care Database. SETTING: One hundred and thirty-six general practices i…

Endometriosis can represent with a variety of symptoms including pelvic pain, dyspareunia and pain with defaecation, up to several years after hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. This may occur when all endometriotic tissue is…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the association between endometrial thickness and endometrial histology in a large sample of women using HRT. DESIGN: Results from three multi-centre studies were combined. PARTICIPANTS: Five hundred and sixty-four…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate and compare the demographic and psychosocial profiles of women with chronic pelvic pain, chronic pain in a different site, and those with no history of pain with specific reference to a history of sexual abuse. DE…

This systematic review presents both the physiological and symptom-based studies which have explored gastrointestinal variation across the menstrual cycle. Understanding this variation may be helpful in identifying the origin of pelvic pain…