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All the sonography data and patients\u2019 information were collected into checklists and analyzed in SPSS-25 software (IBM).<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The mean age of participants was 32.4\u2009\u00b1\u20096.1 years, ranging from 18 to 50 years. Endometrioma was prevalent in 129 patients (84.8%). Size of endometrioma (diameter) was more than 3\u00a0cm in 79.9% of patients, and 3\u00a0cm or fewer in 20.1% of cases. Bladder, intestinal, vaginal, and rectosigmoid involvements with endometriosis implants were observed in 4 (2.6%), 54 (35.5), 3 (0.2%), and 51 (33.5) of patients, respectively. A total of 64.5% of patients were diagnosed with incomplete stenosis of the Douglas pouch and 35.5% had complete stenosis. Deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) was less than 1\u00a0cm in 20.7%, 1 to 3\u00a0cm in 42.3%, and over 3\u00a0cm in 37% of patients. The most common manifestations of endometriosis Obliteration of the Douglas pouch, endometrioma, and DIE. In addition, imaging modalities have shown promising results, indicating the necessity to use transvaginal ultrasound as the first line of diagnosis in patients with clinically suspected endometriosis.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s13104-024-06761-4","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,18]],"date-time":"2024-04-18T13:02:50Z","timestamp":1713445370000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["The correlation between ultrasonographic findings and clinical symptoms of pelvic endometriosis"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Seyed Reza Saadat","family":"Mostafavi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Elham","family":"Kor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Seyyed Mohammad","family":"Sakhaei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anis","family":"Kor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,18]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"6761_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1186\/1472-6874-13-43","volume":"13","author":"TK Holland","year":"2013","unstructured":"Holland TK, Cutner A, Saridogan E, Mavrelos D, Pateman K, Jurkovic D. 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