[Laparoscopic findings in women with chronic pelvic pain]
Objective:
To determine the frequency and analyze the findings during laparoscopy in women with chronic pelvic pain /CPP/.
Materials And Methods:
The study was conducted in the period 01.03.2004-01.07.2007 in the Gynaecological clinic at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, MU-Pleven. Eighty-six women were consecutively admitted in the Clinic, presenting with pelvic pain with duration more than 6 months and who underwent laparoscopy in order to be diagnostically defined more accurately or operatively treated. They were classified according to their socio-demographic characteristics, reproductive history/fertility and parity/, presence of preceding operative interventions, and findings during laparoscopy.
Results And Discussion:
The most frequent findings in women with CPP during laparoscopy were endometriosis /56,98%/ and adhaesion syndrome /39,53%/, and with a lower frequency-pelvic varicosis /17.44%/ and Allen-Masters syndrome /24,42%/. The most common localization of endometriotic foci was on ovaries/40,7%/and plica vesicouterina /18,6 %/, and of the varicose dilated veins-along vv.ovaricae and in the basis of the broad ligaments/resp. 89,96 and 60%/.
Conclusion:
Laparoscopy is an exceptionally valuable and useful method in diagnosing and differentiating the etiology of chronic pelvic pain symptoms, because of the frequent presence of more than one cause with pelvic localization for its appearance.
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