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. 2004 Jul 19;2004(3):CD003678. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD003678.pub2

Batioglu 1997.

Methods Location: Ankara Turkey 
 No. of Centres: 1
Recruitment period: NS
Participants Inclusion criteria: ovarian endometriomas >3cm unilateral/bilateral
No. randomised: 25 
 No. analysed: 25
Interventions Post‐surgery medical treatment with triptorelin 3.75 mg IM x 4 weekly for 6 months (n = 13) 
 versus 
 Pre‐surgery and post‐surgery treatment with triptorelin 3.75 mg IM x 4 weekly for 6 months (n = 12)
Outcomes AFS scores at 6 months 
 Pregnancy rate at 1 year follow up
Notes Power calculation: NS 
 Funding: NS
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) High risk "randomly allocated into one of the treatment groups, odd numbers in the first group and even numbers in the second
Allocation concealment (selection bias) High risk no allocation concealment
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) 
 All outcomes High risk not mentioned, no placebo
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk pregnancy rate reported for all randomised patients
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk mean AFS scores reported per endometrioma not per patient, pregnancy rate
Other bias Unclear risk there were differences between the groups at baseline with regard to mean adhesion scores