Twenty-year history of endometriosis-associated pelvic pain: Too much surgery or not enough?

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 188, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1103-1104

  Matalliotakis, Ioannis M ^a,b,c   Mahutte, Neal G ^a   Goumenou, Anastasia G ^b   Arici, Aydin ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Infertility; Pelvic pain; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; MEDICAL RECORD; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PELVIC PAIN; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0038066769     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mob.2003.24     Document Type: Article

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