Adhesion Score

An adhesion score is a number a surgeon records for scar tissue found in the pelvis. It rates how much tissue is involved, how thick it is and how firmly it is stuck. Scoring the same way at surgery and at a second look makes the visits comparable.

The score is how adhesion prevention gets measured. One series followed 95 women with extensive pelvic adhesions from endometriosis or pelvic infection. Total scores at second-look laparoscopy fell from 18.1 to 6.0 to 2.5 across three surgical protocols.¹ A second-look score of 5 or less, meaning minimal adhesions, rose from 34.6 percent of women in the first phase to 88.0 percent in the third.¹

Each new step in technique was tested against the next second look. That is what makes near adhesion-free surgery a measured claim.