Contraception: Endometrial endotheial cell proliferation in long-term users of subdermal levonorgestrel

Human Reproduction

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 1994, Pages 1647-1651

  Goodger, Anne M ^b   Rogers, Peter A W ^b   Affandi, Biram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Endometrium; Endothelial cell; Norplant

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; LEVONORGESTREL; PROGESTERONE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG TERM CARE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0027977837     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a138767     Document Type: Article

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