Use of Endoscopic and Ultrasound Techniques in the Guinea Pig Leiomyoma Model

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 537-539

  Porter, Kathy B ^a,b   Tsibris, John C M ^a   Porter, Gregory W ^a   O'Brien, William F ^a   Spellacy, William N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Department of Ob Gyn ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MODEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; GUINEA PIG; LEIOMYOMA; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; HYSTEROSCOPY; LEIOMYOMA; OVARIECTOMY; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031421846     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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