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Management of Endometriosis

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Endometriosis

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Abstract

Treatment of endometriosis is broadly classified into pharmacological and surgical methods. Because the etiology of the disease is not well established, none of the currently available treatments can prevent or cure endometriosis. Rather, treatment is aimed mainly at providing symptom relief or improving fertility rates [1]. Therefore, one should consider how treatment options affect pain levels and infertility when investigating whether endometriosis treatment improves quality of life.

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    Sajal Gupta

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    Ashok Agarwal

  3. American Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

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  4. Lecturer, Soroka University Medical Center, Fertility and IVF Unit, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

    Avi Harlev

  5. American Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Mitali Rakhit, Julia Ellis-Kahana & Sneha Parikh

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Gupta, S., Harlev, A., Agarwal, A., Rakhit, M., Ellis-Kahana, J., Parikh, S. (2015). Management of Endometriosis. In: Endometriosis. SpringerBriefs in Reproductive Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18308-4_10

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