Questions to Ask Your Doctor
by drseckin.com | Posted on October 10, 2019
Some questions to consider asking your surgeon before undergoing laparoscopic surgery for endometriosis:
- How many laparoscopies have you performed to diagnose and treat endometriosis?
- How long have you been performing laparoscopic surgery?
- Is it your intention to excise endometriosis at the time of the laparoscopy? If so, what method will be utilized (excision, ablation, etc.)?
- How successful do you believe that method to be and why?
- If the laparoscopy will be strictly diagnostic and no therapeutic measures will be taken, why?
- Are biopsies going to be performed and sent to pathology?
- Will you be assisted by other surgical professionals such as a bowel specialist to treat endometriosis in that area?
- Will a bowel resection be necessary?
- Will you search for and recognize endometriosis in all manifestations, and in all regions?
- Will I be provided with copies of my surgical reports and any pictures or videotapes?
- What do you expect to accomplish with the laparoscopy in terms of outcome, i.e., restoration of fertility and pain relief?
- What is the general recurrence rates in patients you have treated?
- Will adhesion barriers be used? If so, what kind? If not, why not?
Medically reviewed by Tamer Seckin, MD on October 10, 2019
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