Extracts from 'Clinical Evidence': Endometriosis

British Medical Journal

Volumn 320, Issue 7247, 2000, Pages 1449-1452

  Farquhar, Cynthia M ^a  

^a NATIONAL WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DANAZOL; DYDROGESTERONE; GESTRINONE; GONADORELIN; HORMONE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT SURVEY; SUBFERTILITY;

EID: 0034720521     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.320.7247.1449     Document Type: Short Survey

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