Endometriosis in patients with chronic pelvic pain: Is staging predictive of the efficacy of laparoscopic surgery in pain relief?

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 48-54

  Milingos, Spyros ^a   Protopapas, Athanasios ^a,b   Kallipolitis, George ^a   Drakakis, Petros ^a   Loutradis, Dimitrios ^a   Liapi, Anthoula ^a   Antsaklis, Aris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chronic pelvic pain; Diagnosis; Endometriosis; Laparoscopic surgery; Laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; AMERICAN FERTILITY SOCIETY SCORE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPAREUNIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENORRHAGIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPAREUNIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PELVIC PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745727887     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000092023     Document Type: Article

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