Women with endometriosis, especially those endometrioma, present a considerable challenge for ovarian reserve appraisal. This diagnostic difficulty arises from several fundamental questions inherently linked to patient management: the potential influence of endometrioma on reserve; adverse effect surgery and adequacy established biomarkers, anti-Müllerian hormone antral follicle count, appraise...

STUDY QUESTION What are the recurrence and pregnancy rates in women managed for ovarian endometrioma by ablation using plasma energy with and without associated surgery for colorectal endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER Concomitant management of colorectal endometriosis does not impact either risk of recurrences or probability of pregnancy in women managed for endometrioma ablation using plasma ene...

Objective. To report a case of Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH) in which there were two nonfunctional rudimentary uteruses with the presence of ovarian endometrioma, corroborating that there are valid alternative theories to the existence of endometriosis, rather than Sampson's theory alone, such as the coelomic metaplasia theory. Design. A case report. Setting. A tertiary referra...

BACKGROUND Conventional single-incision laparoscopic surgery has been successfully employed for treatment of ovarian endometriomas. However, this technique presents surgeons with formidable ergonomic challenges, that make its widespread adoption unlikely. Robotic assistance in single-incision laparoscopic surgery provides adequate instrument triangulation through a single fulcrum, while elimina...

Endometriosis is the presence of endometrial glands as well as stroma at the locations outside uterus. It affects up to 10% of women. Grossly there are three forms of the disease, namely a) superficial endometrial implants, b) ovarian endometriomas or endometriotic cysts, and c) deep infiltrating endometriosis. All the three forms depict varied manifestation of a single disease and require a ca...