The role of hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy in the management of endometriosis
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This paper reviews the role of hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy in endometriosis management, arguing against early hysterectomy.
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Some years ago the senior author (R.G.) published an editorial in which he stated:endometriosis is an extra-uterine disease and the aim of treatment should be to remove all this extra-uterine disease while retaining all healthy pelvic tissue including the uterus and ovaries . . . the early resort to hysterectomy is to be deplored’.1
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- Laparoscopic excision of endometriosis: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial 2004
- Is insulin resistance an essential component of PCOS?: The endometriosis syndromes: a clinical classification in the presence of aetiological confusion and therapeutic anarchy 2004
- Laparoscopic excision of endometriosis: the treatment of choice? 1997
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- Is insulin resistance an essential component of PCOS?: The endometriosis syndromes: a clinical classification in the presence of aetiological confusion and therapeutic anarchy via openalex
- Laparoscopic excision of endometriosis: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial via openalex
- Laparoscopic excision of endometriosis: the treatment of choice? via openalex
- W2010387940 via openalex
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