Study objective: To evaluate serial generation of microparticles (MPs) after laparoscopic stripping or CO2 laser vaporization in surgical treatment of patients with ovarian endometrioma (OE).

Design: A prospective, randomized, blinded, pilot study, including 33 patients. Setting: Tertiary university hospital from April 2015 to June 2017. Patients: 33 women with unilateral OE undergoing laparoscopic surgery. Intervention: Patients were randomly selected to undergo either CO2 laser vaporization (L group) or laparoscopic stripping (S group) of OE.

Measurements and Main results: Blood samples were collected before surgery, and at 2 hours, 24 hours, 1 month, and 3 months after surgery. MPs generation curve after ovarian endometrioma surgery was performed.

Inclusion Criteria:

• age between 18 and 40 years and unilateral symptomatic OEs ≥3 cm.

Exclusion Criteria:

• previous pelvic surgery, history of cancer, suspected malignancy, presurgical suspicion or evidence of deep endometriosis, presurgical suspicion or evidence of premature ovarian failure, and the use of estrogen suppressive drugs, including oral contraceptives, GnRH-agonists, progestins, or danazol in the preceding 3 months. We excluded patients with suspicion of deep endometriosis according to an extensive preoperative work-up (including magnetic resonance imaging when necessary) routinely performed in such patients.

Publication in an indexed journal

Within 2018