Photodynamic endometrial ablation: Morphological study

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 305-309

  Wyss, Pius ^a   Caduff, Rosmarie ^b   Tadir, Yona ^c   Degen, Andrea ^a   Wagnières, Georges ^d   Schwarz, Viola ^a   Haller, Urs ^a   Fehr, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aminolevulinic acid; Endometrium; Morphology; Photodynamic therapy; Protoporphyrin IX

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; NORETHISTERONE; PROTOPORPHYRIN;

ADHESION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; ILLUMINATION; LASER; METRORRHAGIA; NECROSIS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; TITRIMETRY; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENORRHAGIA; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY;

EID: 0037963255     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.10163     Document Type: Article

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