Case Series
Endometriosis Surgery during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Brazilian Single Institution Experience
Table 1
Anthropometric characteristics, obstetric histories, and indication for each surgery.
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Cases ordered according to the date of surgery. Ethnicity: self-reported; schooling: highest degree completed; G P A: obstetric history includes G (gravidity, number of times a woman has been pregnant), P (parity, number of times a woman carried the pregnancies to a viable gestational age), and A (abortion, number of abortions—spontaneous or not); indication: in all cases, women underwent surgery due to pain, except for case 10 (secondary infertility) and case 11 (risk for bowel obstruction and concerns about imaging findings showing endometriosis invading the appendix, the ovaries, and the anterior, posterior, and lateral compartments). All women are nonsmokers. |