Successful end-to-end cervico-cervical anastomosis in a patient with congenital cervical fragmentation: Case report

Human Reproduction

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1204-1210

  Grimbizis, Grigoris F ^a,b   Tsalikis, Tryfon ^a   Mikos, Themistoklis ^a   Papadopoulos, Nikos ^a   Tarlatzis, Basil C ^a   Bontis, John N ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cervical agenesis; Cervical aplasia; Cervical dysgenesis; Cervical fragmentation; Uterine malformations

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; GONADAL AGENESIS; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMARY AMENORRHEA; STENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX ATRESIA;

EID: 2442543434     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deh213     Document Type: Article

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