Background: Endometrioma is a common cause of gynecologic morbidity and the most common benign ovarian cysts are found at surgery. One of the most troubling aspects of treating endometrioma with laparoscopic excision is disease recurrence after surgery. Present study was conducted to evaluate risk factors for the recurrence of endometrioma after first laparoscopic excision. Materials and Method...

study question: Does surgical treatment of endometriomas impact on the ovarian reserve as evaluated with antral follicle count (AFC)? summaryanswer: Thismeta-analysis of published data shows that surgery for endometrioma does not significantly affect ovarian reserve as evaluated by AFC. what is known already: Surgical excision of an ovarian endometrioma significantly affects ovarian reserve eva...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The study was designed to analyze preoperative clinical and surgical findings at enucleation of ovarian endometrioma with their impact on recurrence and pregnancy rates. METHODS This is a retrospective study of 550 histologically verified ovarian endometriomas operated on at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Kiel, Germany, between 1995 ...

BACKGROUND Ovarian endometriomas are classified as benign ovarian lesions. During pregnancy endometriomas may undergo major morphological changes which are referred to as 'decidualisation'. Decidualised ovarian endometrioma may resemble malignant ovarian tumours on ultrasound examination. The aim was to study variations in the morphology and size of ovarian endometriomas diagnosed on ultrasound...

Although endometriotic cysts are common, the occurrence ol’ infection in ati endometriotic cysts is rarely seen. No more than 120 cases of ovarian abscess and fewer than 10 Cases of ascites and pleural effusion caused by endometriosis have been reported. We present the first reported case of ascites and bilateral pleural effusion associated with an ovarian abscess originating within an endometr...

We measured serum anti-Müllerian hormone levels before and after surgery in women undergoing unilateral and monolocular cystectomy for benign ovarian diseases. Comparing to control benign cysts, we found a significant decline in serum anti-Müllerian hormone levels with consequent depletion of follicles in tissue specimens after surgery for women with ovarian endometrioma.

BACKGROUND The hormonal milieu that characterizes pregnancy may determine profound modifications of ovarian endometriomas leading to lesions mimicking malignancy. In this study, we report on our experience and perform a review of the literature on this issue. METHODS Data from women evaluated at our referral center for prenatal diagnosis were reviewed in order to identify those who were detec...

27:212–216. van Disseldorp J, Lambalk CB, Kwee J, Looman CW, Eijkemans MJ, Fauser BC, Broekmans FJ. Comparison of interand intra-cycle variability of anti-Mullerian hormone and antral follicle counts. Hum Reprod 2010;25:221–227. Var T, Batioglu S, Tonguc E, Kahyaoglu I. The effect of laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy versus coagulation in bilateral endometriomas on ovarian reserve as determined b...