Laparoscopic management of patients with endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 997, Issue , 2003, Pages 269-273

  Milingos, Spyros ^a   Protopapas, Athanasios ^a   Drakakis, Peter ^a   Liapi, Anthoula ^a   Loutradis, Dimitrios ^a   Kallipolitis, George ^a   Milingos, Dimitrios ^a   Michalas, Stylianos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chronic pelvic pain; Endometriosis; Laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPAREUNIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREECE; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREECE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PELVIC PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0642303152     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1290.030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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