Use of laparoscopically mobilized peritoneum in the creation of a neovagina

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 589-592

  Templeman, Claire L ^a   Hertweck, S Paige ^a   Levine, Ronald L ^a   Reich, Harry ^b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b Coll Phys Surgs Columbia Univ ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Laparoscopy; Neovagina; Peritoneum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; VAGINA APLASIA;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MULLERIAN DUCTS; PERITONEUM; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; STENTS; VAGINA;

EID: 0033832837     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(00)00700-7     Document Type: Article

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