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For example, the charity said, if endometriosis was discovered during keyhole surgery the fact it had been found may not be formally recorded.

Ms Brewster said that people can wait up to eight years for a diagnosis as it required a laparoscopy, a keyhole surgery procedure, to confirm the condition.

Mr Tibbot said carrying out keyhole surgery on Stacey "would have been almost impossible, or would have taken the whole day of operating".

Dressed in a revealing keyhole dress and towering beehive wig, Carpenter comes to Simon Says for the ambience and the chance to dress in drag.

But her pregnancy was too far advanced to allow surgeons to perform standard keyhole surgery.