Seema A. Tirlapur

No ORCID on file · 6 papers in corpus
diagnostic-accuracy 2018
Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) ·doi:10.3310/hta22400

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 ma…

review 2015
Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology ·doi:10.1097/GCO.0000000000000222

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) has an annual prevalence of 38/1000 in the UK, with coexisting pathologies often present. Diagnostic laparoscopy has long been the gold standard diagnostic test, but with up to 40% showing no abn…

guideline 2015
The British journal of radiology ·doi:10.1259/bjr.20140615

AIM: To identify radiological parameters that should be reported on gynaecological MRI in order to create a standardized assessment pro forma for reporting CPP, which may be used in clinical practice. METHODS: Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) in …

nonrandomized-trial 2013
Reproductive health ·doi:10.1186/1742-4755-10-61

BACKGROUND: Bladder pain syndrome (BPS), a condition with no gold standard diagnosis, comprises of a cluster of signs and symptoms. Bladder filling pain and bladder wall tenderness are two basic clinical features, present in a high number o…

review 2013
Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology ·doi:10.1097/gco.0000000000000025

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The term idiopathic is often used to describe a disease with no identifiable cause. It may be a diagnosis of exclusion; however, what specific minimum investigations need to be performed to define idiopathic is not always…

review 2012
Best practice & research. Clinical obstetrics & gynaecology ·doi:10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2012.12.001

Gynaecological surgery is constantly evolving. To inform practice with high-impact research, clinicians need to focus on areas of importance. Surveys of specialist members of the British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy have revealed a r…