Relating pelvic pain location to surgical findings of endometriosis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study whether pain location is related to lesion location in women with chronic pelvic pain and biopsy-proven endometriosis.

Methods

A secondary analysis was performed to compare self-reported pain location with recorded laparoscopy findings for location and characteristics of all visible lesions. All lesions were excised. Endometriosis was diagnosed using histopathology criteria. The pelvic area was divided into three anterior and two posterior regions. Lesion depth, number of lesions or endometriomas, and disease burden (defined as sum of lesion sizes, or single compared with multiple lesions) were determined for each region. Data were analyzed using t tests, Fisher exact tests, and logistic regression modeling, with P values corrected for multiple comparisons

SUBMITTER: Hsu AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3155822 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature