Submucous and outer myometrium leiomyomas are two distinct clinical entities [4]

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1452-1454

  Brosens, Jan ^b   Campo, Rudi ^a   Gordts, Stephan ^a   Brosens, Ivo ^a  

^a LEUVEN INSTITUTE FOR FERTILITY AND EMBRYOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCEPTION; CYTOPLASM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOMETRIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAMURAL LEIOMYOMA; LEIOMYOMA; LETTER; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; MYOMETRIUM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROSA; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUBMUCOUS LEIOMYOMA; SUBSEROSAL LEIOMYOMA; SYMPTOM; TUMOR GROWTH; UTERUS; UTERUS CONTRACTION; UTERUS MYOMA;

EID: 0037834905     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(03)00346-7     Document Type: Letter

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