Batioglu 1997.
| Methods | Location: Ankara Turkey
No. of Centres: 1 Recruitment period: NS |
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| Participants | Inclusion criteria: ovarian endometriomas >3cm unilateral/bilateral No. randomised: 25 No. analysed: 25 |
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| 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 |