BACKGROUND: Chronic pelvic pain is a noncyclical pain of duration more than 6months and is the most common presentation in gynaecological outpatient department.

Objectives:  To evaluate the role of laparoscopy in chronic pelvic pain and to correlate laparoscopic findings with preoperative pelvic findings, to determine the type of pathology existing and to re-evaluate the treatment strategy.

Result: Diagnostic laparoscopy could accurately identify the role of chronic pelvic pain in those cases that were normal by detailed clinical evaluation. In laparoscopy only 5(16.7%) patients had normal finding contrary to clinical findings where 20(66.7%) patients were detected normal. Endometriosis was seen in 9 (30%) patients in laparoscopy followed by uterine fibroid in 3 (10%) patients and chronic PID also 3 (10%) patients.

CONCLUSION: laparoscopy proved promising in accurately diagnosing endometriosis and PID.

KEY WORDS: Chronic, Laparoscopy, Pelvic pain.

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