The resolution of chronic pelvic pain after normal laparoscopy findings
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This study investigated the outcomes of chronic pelvic pain in women with normal findings during laparoscopy, reporting on pain resolution rates and associated factors.
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Sixty patients with chronic pelvic pain were monitored after diagnostic laparoscopy had excluded obvious pelvic pathology. Six months after the procedure only two patients described their symptoms as unchanged or worse. Treatment should be limited to the minority of patients whose symptoms remain 6 months after laparoscopy.
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