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Should a diagnosis of endometriosis be sought in all symptomatic women?

Kennedy S

Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. stephen.kennedy@obs-gyn.ox.ac.uk

A tool is needed to enable clinicians to determine whether women wish to seek a pathology-based explanation for chronic pelvic pain or whether they just want symptom relief. Such an approach might reduce the number of unnecessary laparoscopies without adversely affecting outcomes.

Published 30 October 2006 in Fertil Steril, 86(5): 1312-3; discussion 1317.
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