| Methods |
Allocation Concealment: unclear.
Randomisation: unclear, stated as randomised no further details given.
Blinding: unclear.
Power Calculation: none stated.
Duration of trial: Recruited from Jan 1992 to July 1993. Patients followed up for 12 months. |
| Participants |
Number of women randomised: 68.
Number of women analysed: 68.
Drop‐outs/withdrawals: none.
Inclusion criteria: women with primary dysmenorrhoea and/or chronic pelvic pain.
Exclusion criteria: pelvic pathology (lesions).
Diagnosis: at laparoscopy, those without lesions that could be assoc with dysmenorrhoea were randomised.
Age: 18 to 40 years.
Location: Taiwan. |
| Interventions |
Treatment: laparoscopic uterine nerve ablation.
Control: laparoscopic presacral neurectomy. |
| Outcomes |
Pain relief measured on a 5 point scale (0 = no pain to 4 = incapacitating pain unresponsive to potent pain relievers and the inability to function). Pain was measured at baseline, 3 months, 12 months and data was dichotomised into success 100 > 50% pain relief or failure 50 > 0% pain relief.
Adverse effects. |
| Notes |
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| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Allocation concealment? |
Unclear risk |
B ‐ Unclear |
