Dienogest for the treatment of deep endometriosis: Case report and literature review
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A 38-year-old woman was found to have a deep 3.3-cm endometriotic nodule of the bladder, confirmed by cystoscopic resection and imaging. Ultrasound also confirmed a 2.6-cm vaginal fornix implant with similar appearance to the bladder mass. The patient's primary symptoms were mild dysmenorrhea, catamenial dysuria and hematuria. The patient conceived shortly after referral and 3 months post-delivery was offered surgical management but declined in favor of medical management. Dienogest 2 mg once a day was started and after 16 months of treatment, more than 50% reduction in the size of the bladder nodule was seen (pretreatment: 3.3 × 3.0 × 2.7 cm, volume: 13.9 cm(3) ; post-treatment: 2.8 × 2.3 × 1.0 cm, volume: 6.4 cm(3) ). The vaginal mass also decreased in size from a pretreatment value of 2.0 × 2.6 × 1.4 cm (3.8 cm(3) ) to 1.1 × 1.4 × 0.5 mm (0.40 cm(3) ) after the treatment. The patient remained asymptomatic with no significant adverse drug reaction during management. Dienogest may be one of the options for medical management of deep endometriosis in young women especially when surgical intervention is declined.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.100 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".