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In the years 1957 to 1971, 301 patients with endometriosis were treated at the Norfolk
General Hospital by operation alone. During the same period, 53 patients in our series
were treated by hormonal pseudopregnancy with or without operation. Of these 53 patients,
47 have been followed for 2 to 16 years. The pregnancy rate for infertility patients treated by pseudopregnancy was
25.8 per cent as compared with a rate of 58.9 per cent for those treated by operation
alone. A second operative procedure was required for treatment of endometriosis in
34.1 per cent of those patients treated by operation and pseudopregnancy, while 27.1
per cent of those treated by operation alone required a repeat operation for this
disease. Nineteen of 21 patients who had a pelvic operation following pseudopregnancy
were found to have active endometriosis remaining.
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Presented by invitation at the Eighty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Hot Springs, Virginia, September 6-8, 1973.
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© 1974 The C. V. Mosby Company. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
