Laparoscopic surgery for endometriosis

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2020, Issue 10, 2020, Pages

  Bafort, Celine ^a   Beebeejaun, Yusuf ^b   Tomassetti, Carla ^a   Bosteels, Jan ^c   Duffy, James MN ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c Academic Centre for General Practice   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e The Fetal Medicine Research Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIATHERMY; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EUROPEAN QUALITY OF LIFE 5 DIMENSIONS QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC ABLATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MENTAL HEALTH; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREGNANCY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SHORT FORM 12; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UTERINE NERVE TRANSECTION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; COMPLICATION; DENERVATION; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; INNERVATION; PELVIC PAIN; PREGNANCY RATE; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); UTERUS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; GOSERELIN; HELIUM;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; DENERVATION; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GOSERELIN; HELIUM; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LAPAROSCOPY; PELVIC PAIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; UTERUS;

EID: 85094683897     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011031.pub3     Document Type: Review

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