Standardized Ultrasonographic Diagnostic Protocol to Diagnose Endometriosis Based on the International Deep Endometriosis Analysis (IDEA) Consensus Statement

In April of 1978, Sandler et al. published a series of ten cases entitled “The Spectrum of Ultrasonic Findings in Endometriosis” [1]. The authors made the recommendation that sonographers should consider endometriosis in the differential diagnosis when a pelvic mass was visualized on ultrasound. In the almost 40 years since this publication, the international scientific community has contributed to the literature on the utility of ultrasound in …