title: The revised American Fertility Society classification of endometriosis: reproducibility of scoring. ZOLADEX Endometriosis Study Group.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the reproducibility in staging endometriosis using the revised American Fertility Society (AFS) classification of endometriosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Visual documentation of laparoscopies of 315 women with endometriosis was scored by the investigators and a blinded reviewer.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients from private practice institutional setting.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients who participated in a multicenter trial to study the efficacy and safety of a GnRH agonist (GnRH-a).
  
  
  METHODS
  Laparascopic visual documentation of the extent of endometriosis before and after 6 months of GnRH-a therapy.
  
  
  METHODS
  The reproducibility of the AFS classification system comparing scoring during laparoscopy and by a blinded reviewer.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Good to fair agreement scoring endometriosis between the investigator and the blinded reviewer was noted.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Visual documentation may be used to determine the stage of endometriosis using the revised AFS classification guidelines.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Rock
mesh_terms: D004715:Endometriosis / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D015588:Observer Variation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012955:Societies, Medical