title: The resolution of chronic pelvic pain after normal laparoscopy findings.
abstract: Sixty patients with chronic pelvic pain were monitored after diagnostic laparoscopy had excluded obvious pelvic pathology. Six months after the procedure only two patients described their symptoms as unchanged or worse. Treatment should be limited to the minority of patients whose symptoms remain 6 months after laparoscopy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital, Nottingham, England.
authors.forename: P N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Baker
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Symonds
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010388:Pelvis; D012016:Reference Values; D013997:Time Factors