Iatrogenic endometriosis caused by uterine morcellation during a supracervical hysterectomy

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 102, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2003, Pages 1125-1127

  Sepilian, Vicken ^a,b   Della Badia, Carl ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Mail Stop 495 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GONADORELIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPAREUNIA; DYSURIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MYOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSTETRICS; PARITY; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UTERUS; UTERUS SURGERY;

EID: 0242384208     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(03)00683-5     Document Type: Article

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