Discover how surgery works treating Endometriosis
An endometriosis treatment plan typically consists of a combination of surgical, pharmaceutical and/or lifestyle approaches. While medications and lifestyle changes can help manage endometriosis symptoms, a patient’s best chance at achieving lasting relief is through complete excision of endometriosis lesions.
The essi approach to
Treating Endometriosis
When it comes to endometriosis surgery, we believe that your first surgery is the most important – and hopefully last – endometriosis surgery you will need.
Our goal is full excision of your endometriosis lesions, which maximizes the chance that abnormal tissue will not grow back. On the other hand, when ablation (heat destruction) is used or an excision is incomplete, any remaining cells can multiply and lead to a rapid return of endometriosis symptoms.
Endometriosis Surgical Specialists International (ESSI) employs sophisticated mapping techniques to create a surgical plan that includes the location(s) or your endometriosis as well as the size and depth of the lesions. Knowing the depth of lesions is especially important when a patient has deep infiltrating endometriosis, which often leaves roots when removed by inexperienced surgeons.
Your IESS surgeon will use advanced laparoscopic methods to remove your endometriosis, utilizing Da Vinci robots and nerve-sparing technique when appropriate. Some ESSI surgeons also have multi-organ expertise, which means that even if you have endometriosis in multiple locations such as thoracic endometriosis, the surgery can be completed in one day by a single physician.
Discover our team of experienced ESSI surgeons.
The ESSI
Surgical Advantage
- Mapping-based surgical plan
- Complete excision, not ablation
- Highly experienced team
- Multi-organ expertise
- Da Vinci robots
- Nerve-sparing excision
- Minimally invasive procedure
WHAT TO EXPECT
During Surgery
- The patient will go under general anesthesia for laparoscopy.
- A few tiny incisions will be made on the abdomen and other locations depending on where the endometriosis is located.
- A tiny camera (laparoscope) and surgical instruments will be inserted through the incisions.
- The surgeon will use small surgical scissors to remove endometriosis lesions.
- Once excision is complete, the instruments are removed and incisions are closed with dissolvable stitches.
- Patient is monitored for a few hours after surgery and typically discharged the same day.
- The laparoscopic surgery may last 1 to 6 hours depending on the scope of the patient’s endometriosis.