Detection of aromatase cytochrome P-450 in endometrial biopsy specimens as a diagnostic test for endometriosis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1100-1106

  Kitawaki, Jo ^a   Kusuki, Izumi ^a   Koshiba, Hisato ^a   Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^a   Fushiki, Shinji ^a   Honjo, Hideo ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenomyosis; Aromatase cytochrome P 450; Diagnostic test; Endometrial biopsy; Endometriosis; Estrogen; Infertility; Leiomyomas

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450;

ADENOMYOSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENZYME ASSAY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEIOMYOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; AROMATASE; BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032745353     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00424-0     Document Type: Article

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