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).