Data collection
Data was collected from February 2019 through June 2020 with the EQUSUM
application (9). Registered data included: general data on patients’
characteristics, previous abdominal surgery, pain scores for
dysmenorrhoea, dyschezia, dysuria, chronic pelvic pain, dyspareunia,
accurate localisation of endometriosis lesions, and in case of fertility
wish, the EFI scores (9). The EQUSUM application automatically generates
the following classifications: rASRM, Enzian and EFI scores. For this
research question only the Enzian classification is studied.
The inclusion criterion was the presence of deep endometriosis in one or
more of the main Enzian
compartments A, B, C or F. Deep endometriosis was staged on the clinical
intra-operative view combined with preoperative imaging.
Exclusion criteria were diagnostic laparoscopy procedures or procedures
without disease involvement in one of the main compartments (A,B,C or
F). Pain scores were preoperatively documented with a numeric rating
scale (NRS) ranging from 0-10. The Enzian scores were assigned according
to the original manuscript (3).