C. Overton

Endometriosis is a common problem affecting 5-10% of women of childbearing age. It is a condition with unknown pathology, leaving us with several theories. However, about half of women with endometriosis complain of difficulty conceiving. T…

Engemise and colleagues do not mention dyschezia as a symptom of endometriosis.1 Excruciating pain in the rectum, worst premenstrually and during menstruation, is indicative of deep endometriosis in the rectovaginal septum and should prompt…

BACKGROUND: We report a population-based comparison of psychosexual health 5 years after contrasting amounts of surgical treatments for heavy periods [dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB)]. Women's fears about sexual function after hysterec…

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the readmission experience of a large national prospective cohort of women up to 5 years after undergoing either transcervical resection of the endometrium (TCRE) or hysterectomy to assess reasons for readmission …

It is generally accepted that the current scoring system for endometriosis has little correlation with clinical symptoms such as pain, and therefore we may deduce that either endometriosis does not cause pain, or that the current scoring sy…

Techniques for the treatment of menorrhagia have changed rapidly over the last few years. The enthusiastic introduction by a small number of protagonists of a variety of ablation/resection techniques has been followed by an exponential upta…