Surgical Management of Endometriosis

Julie DeCesare, Brittney A. Williams
In: Gynecologic Care · 2018 · pp. 184–190 · doi:10.1017/9781108178594.020 · W4230916997
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This paper details the surgical management of endometriosis, a condition that contributes significantly to gynecological admissions and often involves a long delay from symptom onset to diagnosis.

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This chapter from the 2018 book Gynecologic Care reviews surgical management approaches for endometriosis within a broader gynecologic and infertility context, outlining procedures and considerations discussed across related sections (e.g., infertility-related surgeries and other surgical topics). It presents content at a high level as a guidance-oriented chapter rather than describing a single original study population or experiment, so no specific outcomes are reported in the provided text. The main limitation is that the preview does not include the chapter’s narrative or evidence base, preventing assessment of the methods, included studies, or any explicit caveats stated by the authors. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it is a dedicated chapter on “Surgical Management of Endometriosis” within a gynecologic care textbook, addressing how endometriosis is managed surgically, with relevance to the endometriosis and adenomyosis research corpus despite limited preview detail.

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Abstract

Endometriosis is the etiology in almost one-third of all gynecological admissions in the United States.[1] It takes close to 12 years from first symptoms to confirmatory diagnosis. Early surgical intervention will promote earlier diagnosis. This chapter describes surgical management. The reader is referred to other sources for in-depth discussion of medical management.

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