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The evidence for the management of endometriosis
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Auckland School of Medicine, National Women's Hospital, New Zealand. c.farquhar@auckland.ac.nz
Current Opinion in Obstetrics & Gynecology
|August 28, 1998
Abstract:
This review article has focussed on identifying the evidence from randomized controlled trials for the medical and surgical management of endometriosis. A critical summary of the medical management has shown that there is little difference in effectiveness of various medical treatments, but there are differences in the side-effect profiles. Few randomized controlled trials have been undertaken in surgery, but these have shown that surgical management is effective in the management of both painful symptoms and subfertility.