Invisible microscopic endometriosis: How wrong is the Sampson hypothesis of retrograde menstruation to explain the pathogenesis of endometriosis?

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 61-62

  D'Hooghe, T M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE;

BABOON; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; EVALUATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MENSTRUATION; METAPLASIA; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONEUM; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ASCITIC FLUID; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; PERITONEUM;

EID: 0037868851     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070175     Document Type: Editorial

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