Systematic review of the outcome associated with the different surgical treatment of bowel and rectovaginal endometriosis

Table 11 Comparison of different types of surgery

		Moher et al. [43]	Brouwer and Woods [23]	Fanfani et al. [65]	Roman et al. [66]
		24 months	68 months	32 months	26 months
Shaving	Number	100	18
	Complications	Total 6 %	Total 17 %, PA 5.6 %
	Improvement	80 %
	Relapse		22.2 %
	Fertility	17 %
Discoid excision	Number	39	58	48	16
	Complications	Total 23 %, RVF 3 %, PA 5 %	Total 2 %, CA 2 %	Total 59.7 %, RVF 2.1 %, PA 2.1 %, ID 2.1 %	ID 19 %
	Improvement	92 %		88 %	86 %
	Relapse		5.17 %	13.8 %
	Fertility	11 %			13 %
Segmental intestinal resection	Number	48	137	88	25
	Complications	Total 38 %, BD 2 %, CA 6 %	Total 8 %, PA 1.4 %, CA:2.2 %+, BD 1.4 %, ID 9 %	Total 59.7 %, RVF 3.4 %, PA 2.2 %, BD 14.7 %, CA 1.1 %, ID 4.5 %	BD 8 %, ID 64 %
	Improvement	92 %		93 %	83 %
	Relapse		2.19 %	11.5 %
	Fertility	3 %			12 %

RVF rectovaginal fistula, CA complications of anastomosis, PA pelvic abscess, BD bladder dysfunction, ID intestinal dysfunction