Delayed diagnosis of endometriosis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1305-1306

  Schenken, Robert S ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN AGONIST;

ARTICLE; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EMOTION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PELVIC PAIN; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TIME FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33750199181     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.07.1491     Document Type: Article

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