Fertility and Sterility

First-line in vitro fertilization or surgery for infertile women with bowel endometriosis?

Endometriosis infiltrates the colorectal muscularis propria in about one-tenth of patients with the disease (1, 2). When women with bowel endometriosis are infertile, it is unclear whether first-line in vitro fertilization (IVF) or surgery including intestinal procedures is the most effective treatm…