Fluoroscopically guided synechiolysis for patients with Asherman's syndrome: menstrual and fertility outcomes.

Objective: To describe a 5-year experience of fluoroscopically guided hysteroscopic synechiolysis for Asherman's syndrome.

Design: Retrospective, uncontrolled cohort study.

Setting: Department of Endo-Gynaecology, University of New South Wales, Royal Hospital for Women, Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Clinical and quality-of-life outcomes after fertility-sparing laparoscopic surgery with bowel resection for severe endometriosis.

Study Objective: To describe the effect of fertility-sparing laparoscopic excision of endometriosis and bowel resection on clinical and quality-of-life outcomes.

Design: Prospective observational cohort study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).

Setting: Australian tertiary referral center for the surgical treatment of endometriosis.

Assessment of a method to expel intraperitoneal gas after gynecologic laparoscopy.

Study Objective: To assess a method using instillation of saline to expel all residual intraperitoneal CO2 after laparoscopy. If successful, this would enable clinicians to use radiography as a simple diagnostic test to detect bowel perforation following laparoscopic surgery.

Design: Cohort study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).

Pilot study of botulinum toxin type A in the treatment of chronic pelvic pain associated with spasm of the levator ani muscles.

Objective: To investigate whether botulinum toxin type A (BOTOX) injected into the levator ani muscles of women with objective pelvic floor muscle spasm decreases pain symptoms and improves quality of life.

Design: A prospective cohort study.

Setting: Outpatient clinic in a tertiary referral centre, Sydney, Australia.