Endometriosis diagnosis and staging by operating surgeon and expert review using multiple diagnostic tools: an inter‐rater agreement study

To determine agreement on endometriosis diagnosis between real‐time laparoscopy and subsequent expert review of digital images, operative reports, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and histopathology, viewed sequentially.

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