Concomitant treatment of severe uterine adenomyosis in a premenopausal woman with an aromatase inhibitor and a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1468.e9-1468.e12

  Kimura, Fuminori ^a   Takahashi, Kentaro ^a   Takebayashi, Koichi ^a   Fujiwara, Mutsuko ^a   Kita, Nobuyuki ^a   Noda, Yoichi ^a   Harada, Nobuhiro ^b  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenomyosis; aromatase inhibitor; GnRH agonist

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; BUSERELIN ACETATE; DANAZOL; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GOSERELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PRASTERONE SULFATE;

ADENOMYOSIS; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DYSMENORRHEA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS BLEEDING;

EID: 34249726249     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.09.010     Document Type: Article

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