Gynecology

Guidelines, reviews, epidemiology

Adenomyosis

• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Diagnosis and Management of Adenomyosis [2023]
• Europe
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Consensus on revised definitions of Morphological Uterus Sonographic Assessment (MUSA) features of adenomyosis: results of modified Delphi procedure [2022]
• International
  • Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Conservative surgical treatment for adenomyosis: New options for looking beyond uterus removal [2024]
  • Reproductive BioMedicine Online
    • Fertility, pregnancy and neonatal outcomes of patients with adenomyosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • Seminars in Reproductive Medicine
    • Epidemiology of Adenomyosis [2020]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Prevalence of adenomyosis in women with subfertility: systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • Women's Health
    • High-intensity focused ultrasound in adenomyosis treatment: Insights on safety, efficacy, and reproductive prospects [2024]
• Sweden
  • PLoS ONE
    • Impact of hysterectomy on opioid use in patients with adenomyosis: A nationwide register study [2025]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Uterine artery embolisation for treating adenomyosis [2013]
• United States
  • American Family Physician
    • Adenomyosis: Diagnosis and Management [2022]
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Endometriosis
    • Dysmenorrhea, chronic pelvic pain
    • Abnormal uterine bleeding, menorrhagia

Endometriosis

• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Endometriosis [2023]
    • Endometriosis in Australia: prevalence and hospitalisations [2019]
  • BMC Research Notes
    • The prevalence of self-reported diagnosed endometriosis in the Australian population: results from a nationally-representative survey [2019]
  • Maturitas
    • Impact of endometriosis on women's health-related quality of life: A national prospective cohort study [2023]
  • Reproduction and Fertility
    • Lessons from implementing the Australian National Action Plan for Endometriosis [2022]
• Australia, Europe
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Endometriosis: A review of recent evidence and guidelines [2024]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Australasian Menopause Society
    • Endometriosis – management after menopause
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Endometriosis clinical practice guideline
• Austria, Germany, Switzerland
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Diagnosis and Treatment of Endometriosis. Guideline of the DGGG, SGGG and OEGGG (S2k Level, AWMF Registry Number 015/045, August 2020) [2021]
    • QS ENDO Real – A Study by the German Endometriosis Research Foundation (SEF) on the Reality of Care for Patients with Endometriosis in Germany, Austria and Switzerland [2020]
• Brazil
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Fertility preservation in women with endometriosis [2021]
• Canada
  • Canadian Association of Radiologists
    • Current Practice Patterns, Challenges, and Need for Education in Performing and Reporting Advanced Pelvic US and MRI to Investigate Endometriosis: A Survey by the Canadian Association of Radiologists Endometriosis Working Group [2024]
    • CAR Practice Statement on Advanced Pelvic Ultrasound for Endometriosis [2023]
  • CMAJ
    • Diagnosis and management of endometriosis [2023]
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
    • Endometriosis in Canada: It Is Time for Collaboration to Advance Patient-Oriented, Evidence-Based Policy, Care, and Research [2021]
    • Prevalence, Symptomatic Burden, and Diagnosis of Endometriosis in Canada: Cross-Sectional Survey of 30 000 Women [2020]
    • Cross-Sectional Survey of the Impact of Endometriosis Symptoms on Health-Related Quality of Life in Canadian Women [2020]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Diagnosis and Impact of Endometriosis – A Canadian Guideline [2024]
• Denmark
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Temporal and regional differences in the incidence of hospital-diagnosed endometriosis: a Danish population-based study [2022]
• Europe
  • European Menopause and Andropause Society
    • EMAS position statement: Managing the menopause in women with a past history of endometriosis [2010]
  • European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy
    • Recommendations for the surgical treatment of endometriosis. Part 2: deep endometriosis [2020]
    • A European survey on the conservative surgical management of endometriotic cysts on behalf of the European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Endometriosis [2020]
    • Recommendations for the Surgical Treatment of Endometriosis. Part 1: Ovarian Endometrioma [2017]
  • European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
    • ESHRE guideline: endometriosis [2022]
  • European Society of Urogenital Radiology
    • European society of urogenital radiology (ESUR) guidelines: MR imaging of pelvic endometriosis [2017]
  • Implementation Science
    • The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis: an electronic guideline implementability appraisal [2011]
• Europe, United States
  • Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
    • The Burden of Pelvic Pain Associated With Endometriosis Among Women in Selected European Countries and the United States: A Restricted Systematic Review [2024]
• France
  • Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
    • Deep pelvic infiltrating endometriosis: MRI consensus lexicon and compartment-based approach from the ENDOVALIRM group [2023]
  • Fertility and Sterility
    • Enhanced recovery after posterior deep infiltrating endometriosis surgery: a national study [2022]
  • Haute Autorité de Santé
    • Management of endometriosis CNGOF/HAS clinical practice guidelines [2018]
  • Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction
    • Surgical management of endometriotic women with pregnancy intention in France: A national snapshot of centers performing a high volume of endometriosis procedures [2021]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Increasing incidence and spatial hotspots of hospitalized endometriosis in France from 2011 to 2017 [2022]
• Germany
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • National German Guideline (S2k): Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Endometriosis [2014]
  • International Journal of Fertility & Sterility
    • Germany Endometriosis Pattern Changes; Prevalence and Therapy over 2010 and 2019 Years: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study [2022]
• High-income countries
  • Journal of Psychosomatic Research
    • Neuroticism and cognitive correlates of depression and anxiety in endometriosis: A meta-analytic review, evidence appraisal, and future recommendations [2024]
• India
  • Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India
    • Updates in Endometriosis Management [2024]
• International
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • The natural evolution of untreated deep endometriosis and the effect of hormonal suppression: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • BMC Pharmacology & Toxicology
    • A systematic review and Bayesian analysis of the adverse effects of dienogest [2024]
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Treatment of endometriosis: a review with comparison of 8 guidelines [2021]
  • BMJ Open
    • Protocol for developing, disseminating and implementing a core outcome set for endometriosis [2016]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Endometriosis: disease mechanisms and health disparities [2024]
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    • Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues for endometriosis [2023]
    • Laparoscopic surgery for endometriosis [2020]
  • Current Medical Research and Opinion
    • Use of dienogest in endometriosis: a narrative literature review and expert commentary [2020]
  • Drug Design, Development and Therapy
    • A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on the Use of Aromatase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Endometriosis: The Evidence to Date [2023]
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
    • An exposure to endocrine active persistent pollutants and endometriosis - a review of current epidemiological studies [2023]
  • European Journal of Pain
    • Psychosocial factors associated with pain and health-related quality of life in Endometriosis: A systematic review [2022]
  • Facts, Views & Vision in ObGyn
    • What to choose and why to use - a critical review on the clinical relevance of rASRM, EFI and Enzian classifications of endometriosis [2021]
  • Fertility and Sterility
    • World Endometriosis Research Foundation Endometriosis Phenome and biobanking harmonization project: II. Clinical and covariate phenotype data collection in endometriosis research [2014]
    • World Endometriosis Research Foundation Endometriosis Phenome and Biobanking Harmonization Project: III. Fluid biospecimen collection, processing, and storage in endometriosis research [2014]
    • World Endometriosis Research Foundation Endometriosis Phenome and Biobanking Harmonisation Project: IV. Tissue collection, processing, and storage in endometriosis research [2014]
    • World Endometriosis Research Foundation Endometriosis Phenome and Biobanking Harmonisation Project: I. Surgical phenotype data collection in endometriosis research [2014]
    • Pain scoring in endometriosis: entry criteria and outcome measures for clinical trials. Report from the Art and Science of Endometriosis meeting [2010]
  • Healthcare
    • Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Incidence and Prevalence of Endometriosis [2020]
  • Human Reproduction Open
    • Endometriosis classification systems: an international survey to map current knowledge and uptake [2022]
    • Endometriosis classification, staging and reporting systems: a review on the road to a universally accepted endometriosis classification [2021]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • A systematic review on the prevalence of endometriosis in women [2021]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • The Subjective Experience of Dyspareunia in Women with Endometriosis: A Systematic Review with Narrative Synthesis of Qualitative Research [2021]
  • International Journal of General Medicine
    • Impact of Endometriosis on Life-Course Potential: A Narrative Review [2021]
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
    • Liquid Biopsy in Endometriosis: A Systematic Review [2023]
    • Endometriosis and COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • Endometriosis and Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2021]
  • Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine
    • Development of Provisional Acupuncture Guidelines for Pelvic Pain in Endometriosis Using an e-Delphi Consensus Process [2023]
  • Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
    • Non-Invasive Imaging Techniques for Diagnosis of Pelvic Deep Endometriosis and Endometriosis Classification Systems: An International Consensus Statement [2024]
    • An International Terminology for Endometriosis, 2021 [2021]
  • Medicine
    • Quality evaluation of endometriosis guidelines using AGREE II [2022]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Comparison of clinical practice guidelines methods to reach diagnostic test recommendations regarding diagnostic laparoscopy for endometriosis: A scoping review [2024]
  • Reproduction and Fertility
    • The role of parity in the relationship between endometriosis and pregnancy outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • Reproductive Sciences
    • Holistic Approaches in Endometriosis - as an Effective Method of Supporting Traditional Treatment: A Systematic Search and Narrative Review [2024]
    • The Efficacy of Self-Management Strategies for Females with Endometriosis: a Systematic Review [2023]
    • Defining Future Directions for Endometriosis Research [2013]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Comparative pregnancy rate after colorectal resection versus other surgical procedures for deep infiltrating rectal endometriosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]
    • A systematic review and meta-analysis on alcohol consumption and risk of endometriosis: an update from 2012 [2022]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Systematic approach to sonographic evaluation of the pelvis in women with suspected endometriosis, including terms, definitions and measurements: a consensus opinion from the International Deep Endometriosis Analysis (IDEA) group [2016]
  • World Endometriosis Research Foundation
    • World Endometriosis Research Foundation Endometriosis Phenome and Biobanking Harmonization Project: V. Physical examination standards in endometriosis research [2024]
  • World Endometriosis Society
    • World Endometriosis Society consensus on the classification of endometriosis [2017]
    • Consensus on current management of endometriosis [2013]
• Italy
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Does Quality of Care (QoC) Perception Influence the Quality of Life (QoL) in Women with Endometriosis? Results from an Italian Nationwide Survey during Covid Pandemic [2022]
• Japan
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research
    • Clinical practice guidelines for endometriosis in Japan (The 3rd edition) [2022]
    • Clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of extragenital endometriosis in Japan, 2018 [2020]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Diagnosis and Management of Endometriosis in New Zealand [2020]
• Norway
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Patients' and relatives' perspectives on best possible care in the context of developing a multidisciplinary center for endometriosis and adenomyosis: findings from a national survey [2022]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Guidelines of the Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians on the management of women with endometriosis [2024]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Awareness of Endometriosis Symptoms—A Cross Sectional Survey among Polish Women [2021]
• Republic of Korea
  • Journal of Epidemiology
    • The Estimated Prevalence and Incidence of Endometriosis With the Korean National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort (NHIS-NSC): A National Population-Based Study [2021]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology Science
    • Clinical evaluation and management of endometriosis: guideline for Korean patients from Korean Society of Endometriosis [2018]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Current treatments for endometriosis in South Korea: an analysis of nationwide data from 2010 to 2019 [2023]
• Spain
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Epidemiology of Endometriosis in Spain and Its Autonomous Communities: A Large, Nationwide Study [2021]
• Sweden
  • Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services
    • Endometriosis – Diagnosis, treatment and patient experiences [2018]
• Taiwan
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Long-term dienogest treatment in endometriosis: Consensus from Taiwanese experts [2024]
• United Kingdom
  • BMJ Open
    • Cost-effectiveness of long-acting progestogens versus the combined oral contraceptives pill for preventing recurrence of endometriosis-related pain following surgery: an economic evaluation alongside the PRE-EMPT trial [2024]
  • British Fertility Society
    • Evidence based management of patients with endometriosis undergoing assisted conception: British fertility society policy and practice recommendations [2024]
  • British Journal of Radiology
    • MRI for the diagnosis and staging of deeply infiltrating endometriosis: a national survey of BSGE accredited endometriosis centres and review of the literature [2020]
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Preventing recurrence of endometriosis-related pain by means of long-acting progestogen therapy: the PRE-EMPT RCT [2024]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Endometriosis: diagnosis and management [2024]
    • Endometriosis [2018]
    • Endometriosis and fibroids
  • NHS England
    • Severe endometriosis [2013]
  • Right Decisions
    • Medical management of endometriosis (suspected and confirmed)
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • The Effect of Surgery for Endometriomas on Fertility [2017]
  • Scottish Government
    • Endometriosis: lived experience insight report 2023 [2023]
• United States
  • American College of Radiology
    • Endometriosis
  • American Family Physician
    • Endometriosis: Evaluation and Treatment [2022]
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
    • Endometriosis
  • Endotext
    • Endometriosis
  • Fertility and Sterility
    • Perioperative outcomes in a nationwide sample of patients undergoing surgical treatment of ovarian endometriomas [2022]
  • Institute for Clinical and Economic Review
    • Endometriosis
  • Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
    • Short-acting and Long-acting Opioids Utilization among Women Diagnosed with Endometriosis in the United States: A Population-based Claims Study [2021]
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • Endometriosis
  • PLoS ONE
    • National trends in inpatient endometriosis admissions: Patients, procedures and outcomes, 2006-2015 [2019]
  • Society for Women's Health Research
    • Stigma and Endometriosis: A Brief Overview and Recommendations to Improve Psychosocial Well-Being and Diagnostic Delay [2021]
  • Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound
    • Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound Consensus on Routine Pelvic US for Endometriosis [2024]
  • StatPearls
    • Danazol
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Endometriosis: Fact sheet
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Gynecologic ultrasound
    • Gynecologic surgery
    • Female infertility
    • Dysmenorrhea, chronic pelvic pain
    • Adenomyosis
    • Abnormal uterine bleeding, menorrhagia

Gynecologic surgery

• Australia
  • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    • A review of gynaecological surgical practices for trainees and certified specialists in Australia by volume using MBS and AIHW databases [2022]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Power morcellation at minimally invasive procedures [2022]
    • Use of the Veress needle to obtain pneumoperitoneum prior to laparoscopy [2021]
    • Use of lasers in obstetrics and gynaecology [2021]
    • Driving after abdominal surgery including caesarean section [2020]
    • Guidelines for performing gynaecological endoscopic procedures [2019]
    • Position statement on robotic-assisted laparoscopy [2017]
    • Guidelines for training in advanced endoscopic surgery [2017]
• Austria, Germany, Switzerland
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • The Prevention of Positioning Injuries During Gynecologic Surgery. Guideline of the DGGG, OEGGG and SGGG (S2k Level, AWMF Registry Number 015/077, October 2020) [2021]
• Brazil
  • Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
    • Perioperative management in gynecological surgery based on the ERAS program [2022]
• Canada
  • Annals of Surgery
    • Treatment and Outcomes of Congenital Ovarian Cysts A Study by the Canadian Consortium for Research in Pediatric Surgery (CanCORPS) [2023]
  • CMAJ Open
    • Opportunistic salpingectomy between 2011 and 2016: a descriptive analysis [2022]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Prevention of Venous Thromboembolic Disease in Gynaecological Surgery [2022]
    • Laparoscopic Entry for Gynaecological Surgery [2021]
    • Morcellation During Gynaecologic Surgery: Its Uses, Complications, and Risks of Unsuspected Malignancy [2019]
    • Gynaecologic Surgery for Patients with Obesity [2019]
    • Surgical Safety Checklist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology [2018]
    • Hemorrhagic Shock [2018]
    • Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Gynaecologic Procedures [2018]
    • Diagnosis and Management of Adnexal Torsion in Children, Adolescents, and Adults [2017]
• Canada, Europe, United States
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • International validation of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Society guidelines on enhanced recovery for gynecologic surgery [2019]
• China
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Management of gynecology patients during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: Chinese expert consensus [2020]
• Colombia
  • Revista Colombiana de Obstetricia y Ginecología
    • Consensus on thromboprophylaxis in gynecological surgery [2021]
• Europe
  • European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy
    • ESGE Recommendations for Gynaecological Endoscopic Surgery for COVID-19 Outbreak [2020]
    • BSGE/ESGE guideline on management of fluid distension media in operative hysteroscopy [2016]
  • Society of European Robotic Gynaecological Surgery
    • Recommendations for a standardised educational program in robot assisted gynaecological surgery: Consensus from the Society of European Robotic Gynaecological Surgery (SERGS) [2019]
• International
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    • Fluid and pharmacological agents for adhesion prevention after gynaecological surgery [2020]
  • Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
    • Guidelines for vulvar and vaginal surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Society recommendations [2020]
  • International Continence Society
    • The Clinical Role of LASER for Vulvar and Vaginal Treatments in Gynecology and Female Urology: An ICS/ISSVD Best Practice Consensus Document [2019]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • FIGO-GCH joint consensus statement on the current status and recommendations for the use of blind intrauterine procedures in the evaluation and management of women with suspected intrauterine pathologies [2024]
    • FIGO best practice guidance in surgical consent [2023]
    • FIGO statement: Disparities in patients' access to benign gynecological surgery [2022]
    • Minimal Access Gynecological Surgery [2020]
    • Elective surgery and COVID-19 [2020]
    • COVID-19 – Restarting Elective Surgery [2020]
  • International Society for Gynecologic Endoscopy
    • International Society for Gynecologic Endoscopy (ISGE) guidelines and recommendations on gynecological endoscopy during the evolutionary phases of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic [2020]
  • Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
    • Joint Statement on Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic [2020]
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India
    • Standards for Gynecologic Surgery [2013]
  • Medicina
    • Pain Management during Office Hysteroscopy: An Evidence-Based Approach [2022]
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Efficacy and safety of intravenous dexmedetomidine as an adjuvant to general anesthesia in gynecological surgeries: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials [2023]
• Italy
  • Minerva Anestesiologica
    • Joint consensus on anesthesia in urologic and gynecologic robotic surgery: specific issues in management from a task force of the SIAARTI, SIGO, and SIU [2019]
• Japan
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research
    • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on surgery for benign diseases in gynecology: A nationwide survey by the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology [2023]
• Kazakhstan
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • The Prevalence, Indications, Outcomes of the Most Common Major Gynecological Surgeries in Kazakhstan and Recommendations for Potential Improvements into Public Health and Clinical Practice: Analysis of the National Electronic Healthcare System (2014-2019) [2022]
• Malaysia
  • Gynecology and Minimally Invasive Therapy
    • Gynecological Endoscopic Society of Malaysia Statement and Recommendations on Gynecological Laparoscopic Surgery during COVID-19 Pandemic [2020]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • The Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians statement on surgery in gynecology during the COVID-19 pandemic [2020]
    • Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians Guidelines for the application of hysteroscopy in gynecology [2019]
    • Thromboprophylaxis in women undergoing gynecological surgery or assisted reproductive techniques: new advances and challenges [2016]
• Sweden
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Complications after benign gynecologic surgery-How are they captured in register-based research? A national register study in Sweden [2024]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Outpatient Hysteroscopy [2024]
    • Pain Relief and Informed Decision Making for Outpatient Hysteroscopy [2023]
    • Robotic Surgery in Gynaecology [2022]
    • Morcellation for myomectomy or hysterectomy (Consent Advice No. 13) [2019]
    • The Use of Adhesion Prevention Agents in Obstetrics and Gynaecology [2013]
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Topical Hemostatic Agents at Time of Obstetric and Gynecologic Surgery [2020]
    • The Use of Hysteroscopy for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Intrauterine Pathology [2020]
    • Robot-Assisted Surgery for Noncancerous Gynecologic Conditions [2020]
    • Perioperative Pathways: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery [2018]
    • Management of Mesh and Graft Complications in Gynecologic Surgery [2017]
    • Guiding Principles for Privileging of Innovative Procedures in Gynecologic Surgery [2016]
    • Gynecologic Surgery in the Obese Woman [2015]
    • Gynecologic Surgical Procedures
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
    • Postoperative adhesions in gynecologic surgery: a committee opinion [2019]
  • Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Pelvic Surgical Site Infections in Gynecologic Surgery [2015]
  • Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing
    • Consensus Bundle on Prevention of Surgical Site Infections After Major Gynecologic Surgery [2017]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Intracorporeal Electromechanical Tissue Morcellation: A Critical Review and Recommendations for Clinical Practice [2014]
  • Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
    • Institutional protocols for coronavirus disease 2019 testing in elective gynecologic surgery across sites for the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons’ Surgical Outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic (SOCOVID) study [2021]
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Vulvar diseases
    • Uterine fibroids
    • Urogynecology, urinary and fecal incontinence
    • Hysterectomy
    • Gynecologic ultrasound
    • Female genital neoplasms
    • Endometriosis
    • Ectopic pregnancy
    • Breast diseases

Gynecologic ultrasound

• Australia, New Zealand
  • Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine
    • Guidelines on the Performance of a Gynaecological Ultrasound Examination [2020]
    • Policy on Vaginal Scanning by Sonographers [2014]
• Austria, Germany, Switzerland
  • Ultraschall in der Medizin
    • Basic Gynecologic Ultrasound Examination (Level I): DEGUM, ÖGUM, and SGUM Recommendations [2022]
• Brazil
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Adnexal mass: diagnosis and management [2020]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Initial Investigation and Management of Benign Ovarian Masses [2020]
• Europe
  • European Society of Urogenital Radiology
    • ESUR recommendations for MR imaging of the sonographically indeterminate adnexal mass: an update [2017]
• Europe, United States
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Terms, definitions and measurements to describe sonographic features of myometrium and uterine masses: a consensus opinion from the Morphological Uterus Sonographic Assessment (MUSA) group [2015]
• International
  • International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • ISUOG Consensus Statement on rationalization of gynecological ultrasound services in context of SARS-CoV-2 [2020]
  • World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
    • Guidelines for Cleaning Transvaginal Ultrasound Transducers Between Patients [2017]
• Italy
  • Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
    • The physiological sonographic features of the ovary in healthy subjects: a joint systematic review and meta-analysis by the Italian Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (SIGO) and the Italian Society of Endocrinology (SIE) [2023]
• Netherlands
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Do we more often opt for conservative management of ovarian tumors after changing the Dutch national guideline on enlarged ovaries? A nationwide cohort study [2024]
• United Kingdom
  • British Medical Ultrasound Society
    • Guidelines for Professional Ultrasound Practice [2023]
    • Transvaginal Ultrasound Examinations – Guidance for Practitioners [2022]
• United States
  • American College of Radiology
    • ACR–ACOG–AIUM–SPR–SRU Practice Parameter for the Performance of Ultrasound of the Female Pelvis [2024]
    • Clinically Suspected Adnexal Mass, No Acute Symptoms
    • Acute Pelvic Pain in the Reproductive Age Group
  • American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
    • AIUM Practice Parameter for the Performance of Ultrasound of the Female Pelvis, 2024 Revision [2024]
    • AIUM Practice Parameter for the Performance of Sonohysterography and Hysterosalpingo-Contrast Sonography [2021]
    • AIUM Practice Parameter for the Performance of an Ultrasound Examination of the Female Pelvis [2020]
    • Obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound curriculum and competency assessment in residency training programs: consensus report [2018]
    • Gynecologic Ultrasound
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Manual of diagnostic ultrasound [2013]
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Uterine fibroids
    • Trophoblastic neoplasms, gestational trophoblastic disease
    • Menstruation disturbances, female gonadal disorders
    • Infertility, miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy
    • Hirsutism
    • Gynecologic surgery
    • Female genital neoplasms
    • Endometriosis

Hysterectomy

• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Managing the adnexa at the time of hysterectomy for benign gynaecological disease [2023]
• Austria, Germany, Switzerland
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • Hysterectomy for Benign Uterine Disease [2016]
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Indications and Route of Hysterectomy for Benign Diseases. Guideline of the DGGG, OEGGG and SGGG [2016]
• Belgium
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Using geographically weighted Poisson regression to examine the association between socioeconomic factors and hysterectomy incidence in Wallonia, Belgium [2021]
• Canada
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
    • Hysterectomy Trends: A Canadian Perspective on the Past, Present, and Future [2019]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Prevalence of self-reported hysterectomy among Canadian women, 2000/2001–2008 [2014]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Hysterectomy for Benign Gynaecologic Indications [2019]
    • Supracervical Hysterectomy [2018]
    • Hysterectomy [2018]
  • Women's Health Reports
    • Prevalence of Hysterectomy by Self-Reported Disability Among Canadian Women: Findings from a National Cross-Sectional Survey [2021]
• Denmark
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Hysterectomy on benign indication and risk of pelvic organ prolapse surgery: A national matched cohort study [2023]
  • Clinical Epidemiology
    • Trends in Hysterectomy Incidence Rates During 2000–2015 in Denmark: Shifting from Abdominal to Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures [2021]
    • The Danish Hysterectomy and Hysteroscopy Database [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Potentially Avoidable Peripartum Hysterectomies in Denmark: A Population Based Clinical Audit [2016]
• Europe
  • European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy
    • Surgical steps of total laparoscopic hysterectomy: Part 1: Benign disease by the European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE) [2019]
• Finland
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Pelvic organ prolapse after hysterectomy: A 10-year national follow-up study [2023]
  • Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Recurrent pelvic organ prolapse after hysterectomy; a 10-year national follow-up study [2024]
    • Stress urinary incontinence after hysterectomy: a 10-year national follow-up study [2022]
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Change in medical practice over time? A register based study of regional trends in hysterectomy in Finland in 2001–2018 [2021]
  • BMJ Open
    • Ten years of progress—improved hysterectomy outcomes in Finland 1996–2006: a longitudinal observation study [2013]
• India
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Prevalence, socio-demographic determinants, and self-reported reasons for hysterectomy and choice of hospitalization in India [2022]
  • Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India
    • Advances in Hysterectomy [2024]
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India
    • Deciding the Route for Hysterectomy: Indian Triage System [2014]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Prevalence, sociodemographic determinants and self-reported reasons for hysterectomy in India [2019]
• International
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    • Surgical approach to hysterectomy for benign gynaecological disease [2023]
  • International Urogynecology Journal
    • Systematic review of urological injury during caesarean section and hysterectomy [2023]
  • Journal of Ovarian Research
    • Effect of hysterectomy on ovarian function: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
• Kazakhstan
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • The Prevalence, Incidence, Indications and Outcomes of Peripartum Hysterectomy in Kazakhstan: Data from Unified Nationwide Electronic Healthcare System 2014-2018 [2022]
• Netherlands
  • Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Laparoscopic hysterectomy for benign indications: clinical practice guideline [2017]
• Norway
  • Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
    • Hysterectomy in Norway 2008–18 [2020]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Recommendations of the Polish Society of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians for removal of the uterus by vaginal, laparoscopic and abdominal routes [2020]
• Republic of Korea
  • Healthcare
    • Analysis of the Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Incidence of Hysterectomy Using Data of the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study (KoGES) [2022]
• Taiwan
  • Gynecology and Minimally Invasive Therapy
    • Surgical Trend and Volume Effect on the Choice of Hysterectomy Benign Gynecologic Conditions [2021]
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Decreasing trend of hysterectomy in Taiwan: A population-based study, 1997–2010 [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Vaginal transluminal endoscopic hysterectomy and adnexal surgery for benign gynaecological conditions [2023]
    • Laparoscopic techniques for hysterectomy [2007]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Post-Hysterectomy Vaginal Vault Prolapse [2015]
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Choosing the Route of Hysterectomy for Benign Disease [2017]
    • Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Trends and predictors of hysterectomy prevalence among women in the United States [2022]
  • Cancer Causes and Control
    • US hysterectomy prevalence by age, race and ethnicity from BRFSS and NHIS: implications for analyses of cervical and uterine cancer rates [2022]
  • Journal of Rural Health
    • Higher prevalence of hysterectomy among rural women than urban women: Implications for measures of disparities in uterine and cervical cancers [2022]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Trends in Unplanned Peripartum Hysterectomy in the United States, 2009-2020 [2022]
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Gynecologic surgery

Uterine fibroids

• Australia
  • Better Safer Care
    • Hysterectomy for asymptomatic fibroids
  • Human Reproduction
    • First Australian estimates of incidence and prevalence of uterine fibroids: a data linkage cohort study 2000-2022 [2024]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology
    • Quality care guidelines for uterine artery embolisation in women with symptomatic uterine fibroids in Australia and New Zealand: According to the AGREE-II checklist and endorsed by the Interventional Radiology Society of Australasia [2022]
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Uterine artery embolisation for the treatment of uterine fibroids [2020]
    • Fibroids in infertility [2018]
• Austria, Germany, Switzerland
  • RöFo
    • Uterine Artery Embolization (UAE) for Fibroid Treatment: Results of the 6th Radiological Gynecological Expert Meeting [2017]
    • MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound in Fibroid Treatment - Results of the 3rd Radiological-Gynecological Expert Meeting [2017]
    • Uterine Artery Embolization (UAE) for Fibroid Treatment--Results of the 5th Radiological Gynecological Expert Meeting [2015]
    • Magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound for fibroid treatment--results of the second radiological gynecological expert meeting [2015]
• Canada
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • The past, present, and future of selective progesterone receptor modulators in the management of uterine fibroids [2018]
  • CMAJ Open
    • Quality of ultrasonography reporting and factors associated with selection of imaging modality for uterine fibroids in Canada: results from a prospective cohort registry [2020]
  • Current Medical Research and Opinion
    • Contemporary management of uterine fibroids: focus on emerging medical treatments [2015]
  • Ontario Health
    • Magnetic Resonance–Guided High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MRgHIFU) Treatment of Symptomatic Uterine Fibroids: An Evidence-Based Analysis [2015]
    • Magnetic Resonance-Guided High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MRgHIFU) for Treatment of Symptomatic Uterine Fibroids: An Economic Analysis [2015]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Medical Management of Symptomatic Uterine Leiomyomas – An Addendum [2019]
    • The Management of Uterine Leiomyomas [2015]
    • The Management of Uterine Fibroids in Women With Otherwise Unexplained Infertility [2015]
• Europe
  • Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe
    • Uterine Artery Embolization for Symptomatic Leiomyomata [2015]
  • European Medicines Agency
    • Suspension of ulipristal acetate for uterine fibroids during ongoing EMA review of liver injury risk [2020]
  • European Menopause and Andropause Society
    • EMAS position statement: Management of uterine fibroids [2014]
  • European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy
    • European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE) Good Practice Recommendations on surgical techniques for removal of fibroids: part 1 abdominal (laparoscopic and open) myomectomy [2024]
    • European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE) Good Practice Recommendations on surgical techniques for Removal of Fibroids: Part 2 Hysteroscopic Myomectomy [2024]
  • European Society of Urogenital Radiology
    • European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR) Guidelines: MR Imaging of Leiomyomas [2018]
• Germany
  • Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care
    • Magnetic resonance imaging-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy for uterine fibroids [2017]
• International
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Epidemiology of uterine fibroids: a systematic review [2017]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Global, regional, and national time trends in incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability for uterine fibroids, 1990-2019: an age-period-cohort analysis for the global burden of disease 2019 study [2023]
  • Chinese Medical Journal
    • Global and regional trends in the incidence and prevalence of uterine fibroids and attributable risk factors at the national level from 2010 to 2019: A worldwide database study [2024]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The risk of preterm birth in women with uterine fibroids: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
• Italy
  • Gynecological Endocrinology
    • Awareness, burden and treatment of uterine fibroids: a web-based Italian survey [2025]
• Portugal
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • The impact of anemia on treatment management and clinical outcomes of women hospitalized for uterine leiomyomas [2022]
• Spain
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Updated approaches for management of uterine fibroids [2017]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMJ Open
    • Epidemiology of uterine fibroid in black African women: a systematic scoping review [2022]
• United Kingdom
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Uterine artery embolisation versus myomectomy for premenopausal women with uterine fibroids wishing to avoid hysterectomy: the FEMME RCT [2022]
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • Ulipristal acetate 5mg (Esmya): further restrictions due to risk of serious liver injury [2021]
    • Esmya (ulipristal acetate): suspension of the licence due to risk of serious liver injury [2020]
    • Esmya (ulipristal acetate) for uterine fibroids: do not initiate or re-start treatment; monitor liver function in current and recent users [2018]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Linzagolix for treating moderate to severe symptoms of uterine fibroids [2024]
    • Relugolix–estradiol–norethisterone acetate for treating moderate to severe symptoms of uterine fibroids [2022]
    • Transcervical ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation for symptomatic uterine fibroids [2021]
    • Sonata system for diagnostic imaging and treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids [2021]
    • Laparoscopic removal of uterine fibroids with power morcellation [2021]
    • Hysteroscopic mechanical tissue removal (hysteroscopic morcellation) for uterine fibroids [2021]
    • Ultrasound-guided high-intensity transcutaneous focused ultrasound for symptomatic uterine fibroids [2019]
    • Magnetic resonance image-guided transcutaneous focused ultrasound for uterine fibroids [2011]
    • Uterine artery embolisation for fibroids [2010]
  • Right Decisions
    • Uterine Fibroids
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Uterine Artery Embolisation in the Management of Fibroids [2013]
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Management of Uterine Fibroids [2017]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Uterine Morcellation for Presumed Leiomyomas [2021]
  • American College of Radiology
    • Management of Uterine Fibroids
    • Fibroids
  • American Family Physician
    • Uterine Fibroids: Diagnosis and Treatment [2017]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • The Estimated Annual Cost of Uterine Leiomyomata in the United States [2012]
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
    • Removal of myomas in asymptomatic patients to improve fertility and/or reduce miscarriage rate: a guideline [2017]
    • Fibroids or Myomas or Leiomyomas
  • Endocrine Reviews
    • Comprehensive Review of Uterine Fibroids: Developmental Origin, Pathogenesis, and Treatment [2022]
  • Journal of Women's Health
    • Treatment Patterns in Patients with Uterine Fibroids With and Without a Diagnosis of Heavy Menstrual Bleeding: Results from a Large U.S. Claims Database [2023]
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • Natural history of fibroids in pregnancy: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Fetal Growth Studies - Singletons cohort [2022]
    • Uterine Fibroids
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Trends in Emergency Department Utilization Among Women With Leiomyomas in the United States [2021]
  • Society for Women's Health Research
    • Uterine Fibroids: Assessing Unmet Needs from Bench to Bedside [2021]
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Miscarriage
    • Gynecologic ultrasound
    • Gynecologic surgery
    • Dysmenorrhea, chronic pelvic pain
    • Abnormal uterine bleeding, menorrhagia

Vulvar diseases

• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Localised provoked vestibulodynia (vulvodynia): assessment and management [2015]
• Europe
  • International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections
    • 2021 European guideline for the management of vulval conditions [2021]
  • Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
    • Evidence-based (S3) Guideline on (anogenital) Lichen sclerosus [2015]
• International
  • British Journal of Dermatology
    • Diagnostic criteria for erosive lichen planus affecting the vulva: an international electronic-Delphi consensus exercise [2013]
  • International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease
    • Descriptors of Vulvodynia: A Multisocietal Definition Consensus (International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease, the International Society for the Study of Women Sexual Health, and the International Pelvic Pain Society) [2019]
    • 2015 ISSVD, ISSWSH, and IPPS Consensus Terminology and Classification of Persistent Vulvar Pain and Vulvodynia [2016]
• Sweden
  • Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services
    • Development of a core outcome set for treatment studies for provoked vestibulodynia [2024]
    • Treatment of Provoked Vulvodynia: A Systematic Review [2022]
    • Diagnostics and treatment of provoked vestibulodynia [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
    • Vulval Conditions 2014 [2014]
  • British Association of Dermatologists
    • British Association of Dermatologists guidelines for the management of lichen sclerosus, 2018 [2018]
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Vulval lichen sclerosus in primary care: thinking beyond thrush and genitourinary symptoms of the menopause [2023]
  • British Society for the Study of Vulval Disease
    • Standards of Care for Patients with Vulval Conditions [2022]
    • BSSVD Position Statement
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Balloon catheter insertion for Bartholin's cyst or abscess [2009]
  • Primary Care Dermatology Society
    • Bartholin’s cysts
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Persistent Vulvar Pain [2016]
  • American Family Physician
    • Common Benign Chronic Vulvar Disorders [2020]
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • Vulvodynia
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Vulvitis, vaginitis
    • Vulvar cancer
    • Gynecologic surgery