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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Aravind Kuchkuntla, M.B.B.S[2]

Overview

Surgery

Surgical therapy for endometriosis can be conservative or definitive based on the patient's presentation.

  • Conservative therapy:
    • It is preferred in young women who desire to get pregnant and in patients with no improvement of pain with medical therapy.
    • Sugery includes removal of the endometrial lesions with excision of destruction of the lesion by laser or electrocautery.
    • Laparoscopic uterosacral nerve ablation or laparoscopic presacral neurectomy can be done for chronic pelvic pain.
  • Definitive surgery: It is preferred in patients after child bearing age and elderly women or women with ureteral or bowel obstruction.
    • Definitive surgery is preferred with a total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy.

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