Long-term personalized GnRH agonist therapy without estrogen supplementation for recurrent endometriotic catamenial pneumothorax - Case report

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 179-181

  Tanaka, T ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catamenial pneumothorax; Endometriosis; GnRH aonist; Leuprolide acetate

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MENSTRUAL PNEUMOTHORAX; PNEUMOTHORAX; RECURRENT DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; DIAPHRAGM; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LEUPROLIDE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PNEUMOTHORAX;

EID: 34948906706     PISSN: 03906663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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