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A 24-year-old female, gravida 0, presents to the office for follow-up of suspected endometriosis. Her last menstrual period started two days ago. She reports a three-year history of chronic pelvic pain that is worse during menses, is moderate to severe in intensity, and crampy in nature. She has tried combined oral contraceptive pills without symptomatic improvement. She denies fever, changes in bowel or bladder habits, or dyspareunia. She is sexually active with one male partner. She uses condoms regularly. She has no history of sexually transmitted infections. She has no significant past medical or surgical history.
Ovarian cystic endometriosis, endometrioma, may present on ultrasonography as an easily identifiable hyper-refringent adnexal mass and the most frequent variation. Different studies have tried to evaluate the diagnostic capacity of transvaginal sonography (TVS) in deep endometriosis. When ultrasonographic findings were compared with surgical findings and pathology reports, a low sensitivity (around 30%) was reported for vaginal or rectovaginal septum endometriosis, with a high rate of false negatives. Infertile women with endometriosis have a higher prevalence of associated functional images, such as unruptured luteinized follicles, hydrosalpinges, adenomyosis, and/or intraovarian endometriosis that may interfere with oocyte retrieval. The role of TVS in the diagnosis of extraovarian endometriosis, an area where magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has proved to be much more beneficial, is yet to be established. MRI offers a better suggestive diagnosis of adenomyosis than TVS due to its lower interobserver variability.
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