STUDY OBJECTIVE: To estimate whether laparoscopic staging of @entity46 can be predicted by ultrasound findings. DESIGN: Prospective study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2). SETTING: Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, University of Rome Tor Vergata. @entity1 : One hundred twenty-one @entity1 with histologically confirmed sonographic diagnosis of @entity46 . INTERVENTIONS: Ultrasonographic staging and laparoscopic assessment. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: All @entity1 underwent transvaginal and/or transrectal sonographic evaluation of @entity43 and other sonographic markers (anatomic sites and their relation to abdominovaginal palpation, adhesions, deep or infiltrating nodules) to stage the disease before surgery. These results were compared with laparoscopic staging. Concordance between methods was 83.5%. Specificity and sensitivity of ultrasonographic staging of stages 3 and 4 disease were 86% and 82% and 76% and 91%, respectively. CONCLUSION: Ultrasonographic findings can predict pelvic extension and stage of @entity46 .

Staging of pelvic XXXX : role of sonographic appearance in determining extension of disease and modulating surgical approach.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'patients', 'PATIENTS'] @entity46 :: ('MESH:D004715', 'Disease') :: ['endometriomas', 'endometriosis'] @entity43 :: ('MESH:D010051', 'Disease') :: ['ovarian endometriomas']
@entity46 :: (MESH:D004715,Disease) :: ['endometriosis']
