Table 2 Presenting conditions and symptoms of patients who underwent laparotomy or laparoscopy in the ARIEL gynaecological surgery registry (n=2882)
From: Use of icodextrin 4% solution in the reduction of adhesion formation after gynaecological surgery
Presenting symptom/conditiona | Number of patients (%) | |
|---|---|---|
Laparoscopy (n=2,069) | Laparotomyb (n=813) | |
Pain | 1,206 (58.3) | 294 (36.2) |
Endometriosis | 920 (44.5) | 161 (19.8) |
Endometrioma | 395 (19.1) | 78 (9.6) |
Infertility | 403 (19.5) | 66 (8.1) |
Ovarian cysts | 362 (17.5) | 90 (11.1) |
Leiomyoma | 195 (9.4) | 138 (17.0) |
Abdominal uterine bleeding | 130 (6.3) | 115 (14.1) |
Cancer | 70 (3.4) | 112 (13.8) |
Ectopic pregnancy | 78 (3.8) | 13 (1.6) |
Peritonitis | 4 (0.2) | 3 (0.4) |
Pelvic inflammatory disease | 1 (0.04) | 0 (0.0) |