Current status of management of endometriomas

Reviews in Gynaecological Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 235-241

  Aboulghar, Mohamed ^a   Mansour, Ragaa ^a  

^a EGYPTIAN IVF ET CENTER   (Egypt)

Author keywords

ART; Cystectomy; Endometriomas; Fenestration and coagulation; Laparoscopy; Laparotomy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SCLEROSING AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ASPIRATION; BLEEDING; CYSTECTOMY; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; FENESTRATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; OVARY; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; UTERUS SYNECHIA;

EID: 10944263928     PISSN: 14717697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rigp.2004.06.004     Document Type: Review

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