Credit: Polina Zimmerman from Pexels A review of existing research shows there is a growing benefit to using specialist scanning to diagnose endometriosis. The paper is published in the journal Fertility and Sterility. Endometriosis affects 1 in 9 women and those assigned female at birth. However, it takes 6.4 years to diagnose using the conventional standard of surgical laparoscopy. Standard transvaginal and external ultrasounds can be used as a step in the diagnosis process, but there’s a growing push for imaging to be used as a first tool for diagnosis. Read More