Study	Reason for exclusion
Abrao 2007	Index test outside inclusion criteria (no combined diagnostic estimates available)
Adamyan 1993	Index test outside inclusion criteria (no combined diagnostic estimates available)
Alcazar 2011	Index test outside inclusion criteria (no combined diagnostic estimates available)
Badawy 1984	Index test outside inclusion criteria (no combined diagnostic estimates available)
Bazot 2009	Index test outside inclusion criteria (no combined diagnostic estimates available)
Borboletto 1995	Review article
Cho 2007	Index test outside inclusion criteria (no combined diagnostic estimates available)
da Silva 2014	Index test outside inclusion criteria (no combined diagnostic estimates available)
Dias 2012	Index test outside inclusion criteria (no combined diagnostic estimates available)
Eskenazi 2001	Index test outside inclusion criteria (no combined diagnostic estimates available)
Fedele 1988	Index test outside inclusion criteria (no combined diagnostic estimates available)
Guerriero 1997	Index test outside inclusion criteria (only 'lesion‐level' analysis for imaging component of the test)
Hudelist 2011b	Index test outside inclusion criteria (no combined diagnostic estimates available)
Kocbek 2014	Index test outside inclusion criteria (no combined diagnostic estimates available)
Kuessel 2014	Index test outside inclusion criteria (no combined diagnostic estimates available)
Lee 2014	Index test outside inclusion criteria (no combined diagnostic estimates available)
Nezhat 1994	Index test outside inclusion criteria (no combined diagnostic estimates available)
Szubert 2014	Insufficient diagnostic test accuracy information (unable to construct 2 x 2 tables)
Weerakiet 2000	Study design, population and index test outside inclusion criteria (retrospective selection of cases; postmenopausal women were included; only 'lesion‐level' analysis)
Wolfler 2005	Insufficient diagnostic test accuracy information (unable to construct 2 x 2 tables)
Yong 2013	Target condition outside inclusion criteria (not endometriosis but "abnormal laparoscopy in women with pelvic pain")