Pearls and Pitfalls in Surgery for Endometrioma

Bulent Urman, Bülent Urman, Urman B
Women's health (London, England) · 2015 · vol. 11(5) , pp. 677–683 · doi:10.2217/whe.15.54 · PMID:26314895 · W2173111447
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Surgical planning for endometriomas requires careful consideration of patient factors to preserve reproductive potential, with laparoscopy as the gold standard, though resection versus ablation warrants further investigation.

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Abstract

Endometrioma surgery should be planned and executed very carefully as it is associated with risks that may hamper future reproductive potential. Symptoms, age, risk of malignancy, bilaterality, ovarian reserve, and desire to have children should all be taken into account prior to surgical intervention. Cyclic and noncyclic severe pain may be an indicator or deep infiltrating diseases. Laparoscopic surgery is the gold standard, however, the issue of resection versus ablation should be further studied.

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endometriosischronic_pelvic_painendometrioma

MeSH descriptors

Endometriosis Laparoscopy Pelvic Pain Catheter Ablation Catheter Ablation Drainage Drainage Electrocoagulation Electrocoagulation Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Female Humans Laparoscopy Ovarian Diseases Ovarian Diseases Pelvic Pain Pelvic Pain Pelvic Pain

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