Conservative endometrioma surgery: The combined technique versus CO₂-laser vaporization only (BLAST: Belgium LAser STudy): Clinical protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial

• Celine Bafort ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: celine.bafort@uzleuven.be

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Leuven University Fertility Center, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0476-1304

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• Sharon Lie Fong,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Leuven University Fertility Center, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Steffen Fieuws,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Interuniversity Centre for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Brecht Geysenbergh,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, GZA (Gasthuiszusters Antwerpen) Sint-Augustinus, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9577-4911

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• Michelle Nisolle,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hôpital de La Citadelle, Liège, Belgium

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• Jean-Luc Squifflet,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium

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• Linda Tebache,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinique André Renard, Herstal, Belgium

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• Christine Wyns,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium

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• Christel Meuleman,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Leuven University Fertility Center, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Carla Tomassetti

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Leuven University Fertility Center, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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