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OBJECTIVE: To explore the role of long-standing hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in the malignant transformation of endometriosis. DESIGN: Short case series. Three cases of women with pelvic clearance receiving long-standing HRT studied i…

OBJECTIVES: Endometriosis is a long term, disabling condition, and a common cause of chronic pelvic pain. Symptomatic disease is usually characterised by pelvic and abdominal pain, lower back pain, and dyspareunia, all of which may be sever…

Endometriosis is the presence of endometrial glands and stroma outside the endometrial cavity and is the most common known cause of pelvic pain. The number of women being diagnosed with the disease is increasing, but this may be reflective …

BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY: Endometriosis is a chronic condition in which endometrial glands and stroma are present outside of the uterus. Whereas chronic pelvic pain is the most commonly experienced pain of endometriosis, many women also s…

BACKGROUND: Guidelines exist for the management of endometriosis. Validated and reliable appraisal tools exist to assess the quality of guidelines. OBJECTIVES: To systematically appraise the quality of guidelines for the management of pelv…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the efficacy of laparoscopic excision of visually diagnosed endometriosis in the treatment of chronic pelvic pain. STUDY DESIGN: Sixty-two women with chronic pelvic pain and who underwent laparoscopic excision of vi…