The role of laparoscopic surgery in current treatment of endometriosis

Wachyu Hadisaputra
In: Medical Journal of Indonesia · 2006 · pp. 121 · doi:10.13181/mji.v15i2.226 · W2054025041
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Laparoscopy is essential for accurate endometriosis diagnosis and treatment, with medical therapy showing effectiveness in reducing disease progression.

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This paper discusses current guidelines for treating endometriosis, emphasizing the roles of laparoscopic surgery and medical therapy. It reports that diagnosing endometriosis without laparoscopy has limited accuracy, with a 19% false-negative rate and a 44% false-positive rate when diagnosis was made prior to laparoscopy; 81% of cases had endometriosis confirmed at laparoscopy while 19% did not. The authors conclude that laparoscopy is required for evaluation and treatment, and they state that medical therapy can reduce progression of endometriosis score. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it focuses on how laparoscopic surgery and medical treatments fit into current endometriosis management guidelines.

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The objective of this paper is to discuss the current guidelines for treatment of endometriosis, emphasis on the role of laparoscopic surgery and medical treatment. The accuracy of diagnosis of endometriosis without laparoscopy is very low, as a false negative rate of 19 % and a false positive rate of 44%, when a diagnosis was made pre laparoscopy, 81% had the diagnosis can confirmed on laparoscopy, while 19% did not have endometriosis. It is concluded that laparoscopy is required for evaluation and treatment of endometriosis. Medical therapy is effective in reducing progression of endometriosis score. (Med J Indones 2006; 15:121-4)
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The role of laparoscopic surgery in current treatment of endometriosis DOI: https://doi.org/10.13181/mji.v15i2.226Keywords: endometriosis, laparoscopy, GnRH agonist, danazol, AFS scoreAbstract The objective of this paper is to discuss the current guidelines for treatment of endometriosis, emphasis on the role of laparoscopic surgery and medical treatment. The accuracy of diagnosis of endometriosis without laparoscopy is very low, as a false negative rate of 19 % and a false positive rate of 44%, when a diagnosis was made pre laparoscopy, 81% had the diagnosis can confirmed on laparoscopy, while 19% did not have endometriosis. It is concluded that laparoscopy is required for evaluation and treatment of endometriosis. Medical therapy is effective in reducing progression of endometriosis score. (Med J Indones 2006; 15:121-4) Downloads Downloads Published How to Cite Issue Section License Authors who publish with Medical Journal of Indonesia agree to the following terms: - Authors retain copyright and grant Medical Journal of Indonesia right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License that allows others to remix, adapt, build upon the work non-commercially with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in Medical Journal of Indonesia. - Authors are permitted to copy and redistribute the journal's published version of the work non-commercially (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in Medical Journal of Indonesia.

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