Surgery vs. hormone-based treatment for pain control in deep infiltrating endometriosis: a retrospective cohort study.

Gabriela Pravatta Rezende Antoniassi Marina Capovilla Venturini Lucas Nobushy Kawagoe Daniela Angerame Yela Gomes Cristina Laguna Benetti-Pinto

Published in: Current medical research and opinion (2022)

Both types of treatment, surgical and pharmacological, effectively improved pain symptoms associated with DIE. However, improvement in chronic pelvic pain, dyschezia and deep dyspareunia was greater and longer-lasting after surgery.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
neuropathic pain
minimally invasive
physical activity
spinal cord injury
coronary artery bypass
postoperative pain
drug induced
smoking cessation