Clinical Aspects and Surgical Treatment of Urinary Tract Endometriosis: Our Experience with 31 Cases

European Urology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1093-1098

  Antonelli, Alessandro ^a   Simeone, Claudio ^a   Zani, Danilo ^a   Sacconi, Tazio ^a   Minini, Gianfranco ^a   Canossi, Emma ^a   Cosciani Cunico, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bladder; Endometriosis; Surgery; Ureter; Urinary tract

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER ENDOMETRIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; CYSTOSCOPY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC URETEROLYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER ENDOMETRIOSIS; URETER SURGERY; URETERECTOMY; URETEROURETEROSTOMY; URINARY TRACT;

ADULT; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URETERAL DISEASES; URINARY BLADDER DISEASES;

EID: 33646355705     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2006.03.037     Document Type: Article

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