Elizabeth Ball
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· 25 papers in corpus
· active 2006-2025
Study types
- article 11
- review 6
- preprint 5
- other 2
- book-chapter 1
Condition tags
- endometriosis 16
- mesh:D004715 7
- chronic_pelvic_pain 7
- adenomyosis 5
- mesh:D017699 5
- infertility 4
- dyspareunia 4
- endometrioma 3
- irritable_bowel_syndrome 2
- dysmenorrhea 2
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other
2025
OBJECTIVE: To develop and validate models to predict which endometriosis patients are likely to experience pain reduction following therapeutic laparoscopy using intraoperative findings and patient characteristics. DESIGN: A retrospective …
review
2025
BackgroundEndometriosis affects 1 in 10 females and can cause debilitating pain and subfertility resulting in poor physical and mental health.Management includes surgery and hormonal manipulation (progestins/hormone blockers), many of those…
preprint
2024
Endometriosis is a common chronic non curable neuro-inflammatory condition, which can cause endometriosis-related pelvic pain (ERPP). Sufferers may struggle with side effects and/or risks from conventional medical and surgical treatments, …
preprint
2024
Endometriosis is a common chronic condition for which there is currently no cure. Those suffering from endometriosis-related pelvic pain (ERPP) may struggle with side effects and/or risks presented by conventional medical and surgical trea…
review
2023
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Pelvic abscess is a common gynaecological condition, particularly during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, possibly resulting from obstacles to accessing care during this time. To date, no consensus guideline on management…
article
2021
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition affecting 6%-10% of women of reproductive age and is defined by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus (lesions), commonly affecting the pelvis and ovaries. I…
review
2021
BACKGROUND: Up to 28% of endometriosis patients do not get pain relief from therapeutic laparoscopy but this subgroup is not defined. OBJECTIVES: To identify any prognostic patient-specific factors (such as but not limited to patients' type…
preprint
2020
BACKGROUND Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition affecting 6%-10% of women of reproductive age and is defined by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus (lesions), commonly affecting the pelvis and ovaries. I…
article
2020
BACKGROUND: Chronic pelvic pain affects 2-24% of women worldwide and evidence for medical treatments is scarce. Gabapentin is effective in treating some chronic pain conditions. We aimed to measure the efficacy and safety of gabapentin in w…
article
2020
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the feasibility of a randomised trial of a modified, pre-existing, mindfulness meditation smartphone app for women with chronic pelvic pain. DESIGN: Three arm randomised feasibility trial. SETTING: Women were recruit…
preprint
2020
Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) in women is defined variably, but for clinical use it is cyclical or non-cyclical pain of at least 3-6 months' duration. It has major impacts on individuals and society. There are both structural and idiopathic cau…
article
2019
article
2018
Background Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) symptoms in women are variable and non-specific; establishing a differential diagnosis can be hard. A diagnostic laparoscopy is often performed, although a prior magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan may…
article
2018
Umbilical endometriosis (UE) remains a rare occurrence with an incidence of approximately 0.5–1.0% in all cases of endometriosis. It can be subdivided into primary UE (Villar’s nodule), developing spontaneously, or secondary following previ…
preprint
2017
BACKGROUND Female chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is defined as intermittent or constant pelvic or lower abdominal pain occurring in a woman for at least 6 months. Up to a quarter of women are estimated to be affected by CPP worldwide and it is …
book-chapter
2014
article
2012
Gynaecological surgery is constantly evolving. To inform practicewith high-impact research, clinicians need to focus on areas ofimportance. Surveys of specialist members of the British Society ofGynaecological Endoscopy have revealed a rang…
review
2012
article
2009
article
2009
article
2009
To present a rare case of endometrial stromal sarcoma arising in endometriosis of the rectovaginal septum. A 57-year-old postmenopausal woman with no apparent previous history of endometriosis presented with recent onset of pelvic pain. Tra…
other
2008
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Two hundred and fifty thousand gynaecological laparoscopies are performed yearly in the UK, many of them diagnostic. Unless a patient has major endometriosis and needs advanced surgery, the Royal College of Obstetricians …
article
2008
Whereas diffuse adenomyosis is a common finding in parous women, cystic adenomyosis causing severe dysmenorrhoea is very rarely reported and possibly under-diagnosed, particularly in adolescents. We report a case of juvenile cystic adenomyo…
review
2007
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To appraise a new approach to laparoscopic surgery for infertility caused by advanced endometriosis. RECENT FINDINGS: Endometriosis is a common systemic and local disease with altered peritoneal function, which requires b…
review
2006
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Magnetic resonance imaging is commonly used for gynaecological malignancies, but also is increasingly used for the investigation of benign gynaecological complaints. This review summarizes the current evidence regarding i…