Endometriosis pain or its 'phantom' pain? The elephant in the room of research

Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Correspondence Marcelo de França Moreira, Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Avenida Boulevard 28 de Setembro, 77, Vila Isabel, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20551-030, Brazil. Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Correspondence Marcelo de França Moreira, Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Avenida Boulevard 28 de Setembro, 77, Vila Isabel, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20551-030, Brazil. de França Moreira, M. and Oliveira, M.A.P. (2025), Endometriosis pain or its ‘phantom’ pain? The elephant in the room of research. BJOG, 132: 15-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.17927 The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study. REFERENCES 1Becker CM, Bokor A, Heikinheimo O, Horne A, Jansen F, Kiesel L, et al. ESHRE guideline: endometriosis. Hum Reprod Open. 2022; 2022(2):hoac009. https://doi.org/10.1093/hropen/hoac009 2Marcoux S, Maheux R, Bérubé S. Laparoscopic surgery in infertile women with minimal or mild endometriosis. Canadian collaborative group on endometriosis. N Engl J Med. 1997; 337(4): 217–222. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM199707243370401 4Osuga Y, Seki Y, Tanimoto M, Kusumoto T, Kudou K, Terakawa N. Relugolix, an oral gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor antagonist, reduces endometriosis-associated pain in a dose-response manner: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Fertil Steril. 2021; 115(2): 397–405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2020.07.055 5Till SR, Schrepf A, Clauw DJ, Harte SE, Williams DA, As-Sanie S. Association between Nociplastic pain and pain severity and impact in women with chronic pelvic pain. J Pain. 2023; 24(8): 1406–1414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2023.03.004 6Lewin J, Vashisht A, Hirsch M, Al-Wattar BH, Saridogan E. Comparing the treatment of endometriosis-related pain by excision of endometriosis or hysterectomy: a multicentre prospective cohort study. BJOG. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.17910 10Carey ET, Martin CE, Siedhoff MT, Bair ED, As-Sanie S. Biopsychosocial correlates of persistent postsurgical pain in women with endometriosis. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2014; 124(2): 169–173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgo.2013.07.033 12Koninckx PR, Ussia A, Mashiach R, Vilos G, Martin DC. Endometriosis can cause pain at a distance. J Obstet Gynaecol Can. 2021; 43(9): 1035–1036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jogc.2021.06.002 Total unique accesses to an article’s full text in HTML or PDF/ePDF format.More metric information 1 Scite metrics Explore this article's citation statements on scite.ai Share QR Code Generating QR code QR code copied to clipboard! Something went wrong while generating your QR code. Please try again in a moment. If the issue persists, refresh the page or contact support. Export citation Unable to load citation data. Please try again in a moment. How to cite Elkins, L. J., & Spiegelman, M. (2021). pyUserCalc: A revised Jupyter notebook calculator for uranium-series disequilibria in basalts. Earth and Space Science, 8, e2020EA001619. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001619 How to cite text copied to clipboard! Download Citation If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click on download. This feature enables you to download the bibliographic information (also called citation data, header data, or metadata) for the articles on our site. Citation manager file format Use the dropdown list to choose how to format the bibliographic data you're harvesting. Several citation manager formats are available, including EndNote and BibTex. You can then copy the formatted citation (as displayed) or download it as file, to your device. If the RefWorks format is chosen, the 'Download' button will be replaced with an option to directly export to RefWorks Please check your email for instructions on resetting your password. If you do not receive an email within 10 minutes, your email address may not be registered, and you may need to create a new Wiley Online Library account. Request Username Can't sign in? Forgot your username? Enter your email address below and we will send you your username If the address matches an existing account you will receive an email with instructions to retrieve your username