Endometriosis: surgical approaches to stages III and IV

Corinne Owers, I. Adam
In: Chronic Pelvic Pain · 2014 · pp. 71–78 · doi:10.1017/cbo9781107478084.007 · W4251216094
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This paper reviews surgical approaches for managing advanced stages III and IV endometriosis, focusing on techniques and outcomes.

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This chapter within the book “Chronic Pelvic Pain” examines endometriosis and focuses specifically on surgical approaches relevant to disease stages III and IV, framed within the broader spectrum of chronic pelvic pain. It discusses pelvic anatomy and neuroanatomy as background for understanding chronic pelvic pain, and situates surgical approaches among other investigation and treatment domains. A key limitation, explicit in the preview-only availability here, is that the full chapter’s content could not be accessed to extract detailed findings or caveats beyond the outlined scope. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — surgical approaches to stages III and IV within a chronic pelvic pain framework.

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- Chronic Pelvic Pain - Chronic Pelvic Pain - Copyright page - Contents - Contributors - 1 Chronic pelvic pain: spectrum of the disorder - 2 Pelvic anatomy and neuroanatomy: relevance to chronic pelvic pain - 3 Investigating chronic pelvic pain: ultrasound - 4 Investigating chronic pelvic pain: surgical approaches - 5 Medical treatments for endometriosis-related pain - 6 Endometriosis: surgical approaches to stages I and II - 7 Endometriosis: surgical approaches to stages III and IV - 8 Psychological considerations and therapies in patients with chronic pelvic pain - 9 Vulvodynia - 10 Interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome - 11 Pelvic inflammatory disease and chronic pelvic pain - 12 Chronic pelvic pain and sexual dysfunction: cause and effect - 13 Complementary therapies for women with chronic pelvic pain - 14 Management of idiopathic chronic pelvic pain - Index Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014 Book contents - Chronic Pelvic Pain - Chronic Pelvic Pain - Copyright page - Contents - Contributors - 1 Chronic pelvic pain: spectrum of the disorder - 2 Pelvic anatomy and neuroanatomy: relevance to chronic pelvic pain - 3 Investigating chronic pelvic pain: ultrasound - 4 Investigating chronic pelvic pain: surgical approaches - 5 Medical treatments for endometriosis-related pain - 6 Endometriosis: surgical approaches to stages I and II - 7 Endometriosis: surgical approaches to stages III and IV - 8 Psychological considerations and therapies in patients with chronic pelvic pain - 9 Vulvodynia - 10 Interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome - 11 Pelvic inflammatory disease and chronic pelvic pain - 12 Chronic pelvic pain and sexual dysfunction: cause and effect - 13 Complementary therapies for women with chronic pelvic pain - 14 Management of idiopathic chronic pelvic pain - Index A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content. - Type - Chapter - Information - Chronic Pelvic Pain , pp. 71 - 78Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014 Accessibility compliance for the HTML of this chapter is currently unknown and may be updated in the future. To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle. Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply. Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service. - Endometriosis: surgical approaches to stages III and IV - - Book: Chronic Pelvic Pain - Online publication: 18 December 2014 To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox. - Endometriosis: surgical approaches to stages III and IV - - Book: Chronic Pelvic Pain - Online publication: 18 December 2014 To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive. - Endometriosis: surgical approaches to stages III and IV - - Book: Chronic Pelvic Pain - Online publication: 18 December 2014

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