Etiopathology of endometriosis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 816, Issue , 1997, Pages 305-309

  Bontis, John N ^a,b   Vavilis, Dimitrios T ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Obstetrician Gynecologist   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MESOTHELIUM; METAPLASIA; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEUM;

EID: 0030848093     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb52155.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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