title: Prevalence of endometriosis at a university hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the prevalence of endometriosis in women who had gynecologic laparoscopy at a university hospital in Saudi Arabia.
  
  
  METHODS
  The hospital records were reviewed to identify all women who had undergone gynecological laparoscopy between January 2008 and December 2013.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 190 gynecologic laparoscopies were performed. The indications for laparoscopy were infertility (n = 76; 40%), chronic pelvic pain (n = 34; 17.9%), infertility and chronic pelvic pain (n = 7; 3.7%), ectopic pregnancy (n = 30; 15.8%), pelvic mass (n = 12; 6.3%), removal of a missing intrauterine contraceptive device (n = 6; 3.2%); other indications were documented in 25 cases (13.1%). Endometriosis was diagnosed in 21 women (11.1%). The presenting complaints in women with endometriosis were pelvic pain (n = 7; 33.3%), infertility (n = 5; 23.8%), pelvic pain and infertility (n = 6; 28.6%), and pelvic mass (n = 2; 9.5%); the complaint was unknown in one patient (4.8%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Endometriosis was uncommon in women who had undergone gynecologic laparoscopy.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Rouzi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sahly
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kafy
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sawan
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Abduljabbar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000209:etiology; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017699:Pelvic Pain / Q000209:etiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D015995:Prevalence; D012529:Saudi Arabia / Q000453:epidemiology