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Table 1 Change in pain scores with treatment with respect to initial surgical findings

From: Deep and superficial endometriotic disease: the response to radical laparoscopic excision in the treatment of chronic pelvic pain

Surgical findings

Global pain scores (SD)

Statistical significance (P) (paired t-test)

Pre-operative

Post-operative

No endometriosis (n=2)

21.0 (2.8)

7.0 (7.1)

0.30

Superficial endometriosis only (n=17)

17.5 (7.8)

16.1 (6.7)

0.43

Deep ± superficial endometriosis (n=27)

19.2 (7.2)

14.5 (8.9)

0.004