Increased diagnostic accuracy of laparoscopy in endometriosis using indigo carmine: a new technique
J Alejandro Rauh-Hain1, Marc R Laufer
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Objective:
To report the technique and outcome of laparoscopy in endometriosis using indigo carmine.
Design:
Case report.
Setting:
Tertiary care center.
Patient(S):
Twenty-nine-year-old nulligravid woman with a history of endometriosis and left unicornuate uterus with an absent right horn with a present right ovary and distal fallopian tube with recurrence of disease.
Intervention(S):
Operative laparoscopy for destruction of endometriosis and chromopertubation, given the patient's history of infertility.
Main Outcome Measure(S):
Identification of endometriosis.
Result(S):
Lesions of endometriosis were stained with indigo carmine and were easily identified.
Conclusion(S):
Tissue staining demonstrated lesions of endometriosis that were more easily identified; therefore, this technique could provide a special and unique approach to a more accurate diagnosis of endometriosis.
