Obturator hernia as a cause of recurrent pain in a patient with previously diagnosed endometriosis.
Recurrent chronic pelvic pain should prompt physicians to reassess the patient. The threshold to perform laparoscopy, and to consider and surgically treat all potential disease associated with pain, even non-gynecologic etiologies, should be low, especially in those whose pain is focal or unresponsive to hormone therapy.
Browne
Hyacinth N
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Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1109, USA. brownehy@mail.nih.gov
Sherry
Richard
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Stratton
Pamela
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D002908:Chronic Disease; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006553:Hernia, Obturator / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010147:Pain Measurement; D017699:Pelvic Pain / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012008:Recurrence; D016896:Treatment Outcome