STUDY OBJECTIVE To estimate the effect of combined oral contraceptives (COCs) in women with deep infiltrating endometriosis. DESIGN Retrospective study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2). SETTING Tertiary care university hospital. PATIENTS One hundred six women with uncomplicated posterior deep infiltrating endometriosis scheduled to undergo laparoscopic surgery between November 20...

ObjectiveTo evaluate the assisted reproductive technology (ART) cumulative live-birth rate (LBR) in a cohort of bowel endometriosis patients with no prior history surgery for endometriosis.DesignProspective study.SettingUniversity hospital.Patient(s)One hundred and one consecutive infertile bowel-endometriosis whom diagnosis was based on published imaging criteria using transvaginal sonography ...

BACKGROUND Endometriosis is a chronic and progressive condition of women of reproductive age. It is strongly associated with significant impairment of sexual function. AIM To objectively evaluate the impact of laparoscopic excision of endometriosis on sexual function in patients with deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) compared to healthy women. SETTING AND DESIGN Prospective study, inclu...

BACKGROUND There is currently no consensus about indications for surgery for infertility associated with colorectal endometriosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate cumulative pregnancy rates (CPRs) after ICSI-IVF cycles in patients with colorectal endometriosis and to identify determinant factors of fertility outcome. METHODS Prospective longitudinal multicentre study from January 2005 t...

Endometriosis is defined as the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterine, which may affect nearly 60% of women in reproductive age. Deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) defined as an endometriotic lesion penetrating into the retroperitoneal space or the wall of the pelvic organs to a depth of at least 5 mm represents the most diagnostic challenge. Herein, we reported the use of hyalu...

Bowel endometriosis is the presence of ectopic endometrial glands and stroma infiltrating intestinal wall causing bowel symptoms pain. When hormonal therapies fail, surgery becomes treatment choice nowadays a minimally invasive approach standard care. We usually adopt robotic three-trocar technique with 12-mm infraumbilical camera port, two 8-mm accesses one or laparoscopic ports. Eradication d...

Endometriosis is a common, benign, chronic, estrogen-dependent disorder. The endometrial tissue implants itself outside the uterus and can be usually found in the pelvis or, in rare cases, it can be found nearly anywhere in the body. There are no pathognomonic symptoms of this disease, therefore, in some cases the tumors are incidentally discovered during surgery. Deep infiltrative endometriosi...

Background The performance of TVS, TRS and MRI for the diagnosis of DIE have been separately reported in earlier studies. However, the three methods have not been concurrently compared in terms of their overall performance and classified results as per different anatomical locations of DIE lesions in a large study population. This study was an attempt to compare pelvic magnetic resonance imagin...