Endometriosis: Treatment strategies

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 997, Issue , 2003, Pages 229-239

  Valle, Rafael F ^a   Sciarra, John J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Infertility; Pelvic pain; Retrograde menstruation

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; BUSERELIN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN PLUS MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; DANAZOL; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; GESTAGEN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; GOSERELIN; HISTRELIN; LEUPRORELIN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MEGESTROL ACETATE; NAFARELIN ACETATE; NORETHISTERONE ACETATE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PROGESTERONE; TRIPTORELIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FERTILITY PROMOTING AGENT; GONADORELIN;

ACNE; AGE; BLEEDING; BREAST ATROPHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXCISION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS DISEASE; FLUID RETENTION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEMOSTASIS; HIRSUTISM; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MUSCLE CRAMP; NASAL PRURITUS; OSTEOLYSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN IRRITATION; SPOTTING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VAGINA ATROPHY; VAGINA BLEEDING; VAGINAL DRYNESS; VAGINITIS; WEIGHT GAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PELVIC PAIN; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0642333869     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1290.026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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