title: Obturator hernia as a cause of recurrent pain in a patient with previously diagnosed endometriosis.
abstract: 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.
authors: 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
authors: Hyacinth N
authors: HN
authors: Browne
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Sherry
authors: Pamela
authors: P
authors: Stratton
mesh_terms: 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