Endometriosis: A uterine disease with extrauterine lesions?

Reviews in Gynaecological Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 115-119

  Brosens, Ivo ^a   Puttemans, Patrick ^a   Campo, Rudi ^a   Gordts, Stephan ^a  

^a LEUVEN INSTITUTE FOR FERTILITY AND EMBRYOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; GnRH agonist treatment; Markers; Uterine microenvironment

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; GONADORELIN AGONIST; MESSENGER RNA; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

APOPTOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NIDATION; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; UTERUS MYOMA; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 15744376246     PISSN: 14717697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-7697(03)00021-2     Document Type: Review

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