Eliana Montanari, Attila Bokor, Gábor Szabó, William Kondo, Carlos Henrique Trippia, Mario Malzoni, Alessandra Di Giovanni, Hans-Rudolf Tinneberg, Anna Oberstein, Rodrigo Manieri Rocha, Mathew Leonardi, George Condous, Hanan Alsalem, Joerg Keckstein, Gernot Hudelist
STUDY QUESTION: How is endometriosis extent described by the #Enzian classification compared to the revised American Society for Reproductive Medicine (rASRM) stages in women undergoing radical surgery for deep endometriosis (DE)? SUMMARY ANSWER: The prevalence and severity grade of endometriotic lesions and adhesions as well as the total number of #Enzian compartments affected by DE increase on average with increasing rASRM stage; however, DE lesions are also present in rASRM stages 1 and 2, leading to an underestimation of disease severity when using the rASRM classification...
September 6, 2022: Human Reproduction