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Article: Data from University of Bologna provide new insights into endometriosis.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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"Objective evaluation of pelvic pain symptoms using a standard pain questionnaire is essential to assessing the treatment of endometriosis and related pain. To evaluate the McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) as a multi-dimensional verbal scale in providing information about chronic pelvic pain associated with endometriosis, before and after laparoscopic surgery," scientists in Bologna, Italy report (see also Endometriosis).
"Fifty-five women undergoing laparoscopy for severe endometriosis were asked to complete the MPQ before surgery and at the 6-month follow up. All patients presented with preoperative pain symptoms of variable severity. We obtained the pain ...
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