Endometriosis
It depends on whether the patient wants to get pregnant or not. In the first case, the patient should NOT be administered any medication following the surgical procedure. If she has no plans of getting pregnant in the near future, all treatments (injections, contraceptives, etc.) have a similar effectiveness.
It may be that the pain is due to causes other than endometriosis, therefore these causes should be treated; or that the endometriosis was not completely removed during the first procedure for a number of reasons.
Laparotomy is still considered a reliable and trustworthy procedure for a trained surgeon to perform whenever deemed clinically necessary.
It is a medical diagnostic procedure to examine a magnified view of the cervix, the uterus, the external reproductive organs... using a special machine.
Laparoscopic surgery has gained popularity over the last decades as an alternative method for performing a multitude of procedures.