Underdiagnosis of Endometriosis and Delays to Surgical Intervention: A Review of Current Challenges and Clinical Implications

This paper reviews current challenges contributing to underdiagnosis of endometriosis and the resulting delays before surgical intervention, outlining clinical and system-level factors that prolong time to diagnosis and treatment. It synthesizes discussion of how these delays affect pathways to surgery rather than presenting original patient data or new experimental methods. A key limitation is that, as a review, it does not provide quantitative estimates of diagnostic timing or surgical outcomes and relies on the scope and framing of included sources. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it focuses on underdiagnosis and delays to surgical intervention.

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