title: [Current treatment of endometriosis].
abstract: Early diagnosis of endometriosis is important for proper planning of the treatment. First-line treatment of moderate endometriosis is hormonal drug therapy, which should be long-standing. Surgery is needed, if pain symptoms cannot be controlled with medication. For patients with severe endometriosis, surgical treatment is often the first-line therapy. Complete elimination of the foci of endometriosis is attempted already at the first time. More than half of endometriosis patients will get pregnant and give birth to a child either naturally or via infertility treatments.
authors: HYKS:n naistenklinikka, PL 140, 00029 HUS.
authors: Päivi
authors: P
authors: Härkki
authors: Anna-Mari
authors: AM
authors: Heikkinen
authors: Marjaleena
authors: M
authors: Setälä
mesh_terms: D042241:Early Diagnosis; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans