Evaluation of laparoscopy results for the patients with chronic pelvic pain

Asena AYAR MADENLİ, Halime Çalı Öztürk
In: Journal of Medicine and Palliative Care · 2022 · vol. 3(4) , pp. 317–321 · doi:10.47582/jompac.1172802 · W4312139121
article OA: bronze CC0
🔓 Open OA copy View on OpenAlex View at publisher
⚙ AI-generated summary by claude@2026-06, 2026-06-07 ⓘ

This retrospective study evaluated laparoscopy results for 170 patients with chronic pelvic pain, finding a significant association between infertility and laparoscopy findings.

One-sentence paraphrase of the abstract; not a substitute for reading it. No clinical advice. How this works

⚙ AI-generated deep summary by claude@2026-06, 2026-06-07 ⓘ

This paper evaluates laparoscopy outcomes for patients with chronic pelvic pain, synthesizing the diagnostic and result-oriented role of laparoscopic assessment in this population using a high-level review of prior gynecologic laparoscopy studies and related evidence. It emphasizes that laparoscopy is used to evaluate pelvic pathology in cases where chronic pelvic pain persists, and it compiles findings from earlier work including endometriosis diagnostic validation against histology, and incidence estimates of endometriosis among women undergoing laparoscopy for unexplained infertility and chronic pelvic pain. The main limitation is that the provided text contains minimal methodological and outcome detail for this specific paper, relying on included references rather than reporting granular study design parameters or effect sizes. Relevance to endometriosis: endometriosis is cited in the context of laparoscopic diagnosis validation (including surgeon visualization vs histologic findings) and incidence among women prepared for laparoscopy with unexplained infertility and chronic pelvic pain, though the paper’s main focus is evaluation of laparoscopy results in chronic pelvic pain generally.

Read from the paper's body, not the abstract. Not a substitute for reading the paper. No clinical advice. How this works

Abstract

Aim: The study aims to retrospectively evaluate the laparoscopy results of patients who underwent laparoscopy with chronic pelvic pain (CPPS) diagnosis in two groups of fertile and infertile patients. Material and Method: This retrospective study examined the electronic records of 170 patients who underwent laparoscopy due to CPPS were included in the study. The patients were divided into two groups: the CPPS and unexplained infertility group (n: 87) as the case group and the CPPS fertile group (n: 83) as the control group. Women aged 25-40 years with unexplained infertility and CPPS were included in the study. Results: Results found a statistically significant association between infertility in women and laparoscopy results (p0.05). There was no statistically significant association between women’s infertility and smoking status (p>0.05). Mann-Whitney test did not find a statistically significant association between case and control regarding age and body mass index (BMI) (p>0.05). There was a statistically significant difference between groups in terms of the duration of pain (p

My notes (saved in your browser only)

Condition tags

chronic_pelvic_paininfertility

Citation neighborhood

Papers in the corpus that this work cites (lower rings, blue) and that cite this one (upper rings, green). Dot size scales with the paper's in-corpus citation count — bigger dot = more influential within the endo/adeno field. Click a dot to open that paper. [ expand to 2 hops ] — adds papers reached through this work's immediate citers/citees. Heavier; up to 60 extra dots.

References (24)

Source provenance

openalex
last seen: 2026-06-10T17:14:06.276822+00:00
License: CC0 · commercial use OK