Diagnóstico de endometriosis en Medellin - Colombia
This study found endometriosis in 2.5% of diagnostic laparoscopies and 1.21 per thousand laparoscopic tubectomies in Medellin between 1979 and 1984, with increased risk in women aged 25-34.
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The paper studied the frequency and risk factors for endometriosis diagnosis in women undergoing diagnostic laparoscopy and the proportion among laparoscopic tubectomies at Profamilia in Medellín, Colombia, using data from 1979 through September 1984. It found that endometriosis occurred in an estimated 2.5% of diagnostic laparoscopies and 1.21 per 1,000 laparoscopic tubectomies, with risk increasing by age and highest shares of cases in women aged 25–29 (30.3%) and 30–34 (28.2%). Pain symptoms were reported as primary indications for diagnostic laparoscopy, with dysmenorrhea in 26.9% and pelvic pain in 29.8% of cases, and the authors note an apparently better outcome for surgical treatment than drug therapy while calling for better-controlled future studies. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it quantifies diagnostic laparoscopy and tubectomy-associated frequencies and age-related risk patterns for endometriosis in Medellín, Colombia.
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