Medical treatment of endometriosis: a comparative trial.
Danazol proved superior to mestranol with norethynodrel for endometriosis, though surgery is needed for extensive disease, hysterectomy for severe symptoms in women who have completed childbearing, and danazol is indicated for young women with mild/moderate endometriosis or postoperatively.
One-sentence paraphrase of the abstract; not a substitute for reading it. No clinical advice. How this works
Abstract
My notes (saved in your browser only)
Condition tags
MeSH descriptors
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.
Cited by (33)
- Endometriosis 2016
- Progestagens and anti-progestagens for pain associated with endometriosis 2012
- Endometriosis 2011
- Hormonal contraceptives and endometriosis/adenomyosis 2010
- Hormone therapy for endometriosis and surgical menopause 2009
- Recommandations pour la pratique clinique : et si les médecins reprenaient la main ? 2008
- Ovulation suppression for endometriosis for women with subfertility 2007
- Endometriosis 2007
- Management of the Pain Associated with Endometriosis: An Update of the Painful Problems 2006
- Ovulation suppression for endometriosis 2003
- Tratamiento de la endometriosis y medicina basada en la evidencia 2003
- Diagnosis and management of chronic pelvic pain 2002
- The Treatment of Endometriosis 2002
- Medical management of endometriosis and infertility 2000
- Progestagens and anti-progestagens for pain associated with endometriosis 2000
- Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain 1998
- Progestins for symptomatic endometriosis: a critical analysis of the evidence 1997
- Endometriosis: Current Management 1995
- The Role of Medical Management in the Treatment of Endometriosis 1995
- A controlled study of danazol for the treatment of karyotypically normal spontaneous premature ovarian failure 1994
- 9 Endometriosis: Medical therapy 1993
- Endometriosis in the adolescent and teenage female 1993
- Changing concepts of medical treatment of endometriosis 1993
- Principles of medical therapy for endometriosis pain 1992
- The use of danazol as a treatment of endometriosis 1991
- Gestogens and anti-gestogens as treatment of endometriosis 1991
- The pathogenesis and aetiology of endometriosis 1991
- Cyclic Pelvic Pain 1990
- Clinical Therapeutics of Endometriosis, Part 2 1989
- Danazol in the treatment of endometriosis: analysis of 100 cases with a 4-year follow-up 1985
- Danazol in the Treatment of Endometriosis 1980
- Endometriosis--continuing conundrum. 1980
- Endometriosis—continuing conundrum 1980
Source provenance
- europepmc
- last seen: 2026-06-04T01:30:01.192114+00:00
- openalex
- last seen: 2026-06-04T00:00:01.174412+00:00
- pubmed
- last seen: 2026-05-14T05:58:48.767648+00:00