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Endometriosis after neosalpingostomy
S H Woodworth1, D D Pridham, C L Cook
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
|May 1, 1994
Abstract:
A patient seen for infertility developed severe endometriosis within 2 years of neosalpingostomy for bilateral fallopian tube obstruction. A retrospective review of infertility surgeries revealed none of 20 patients with obstructed tubes to have endometriosis, compared with 66 of 125 (52.8%) with at least one patent fallopian tube (p < 0.001, 95% confidence interval 0% to 17% vs 44% to 62%.