Laparoscopic excision of uterine adenomyomas

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 953-961

  Grimbizis, Grigoris F ^a,b   Mikos, Themistoklis ^a   Zepiridis, Leonidas ^a,b   Theodoridis, Theodoros ^a,b   Miliaras, Dimosthenis ^a   Tarlatzis, Basil C ^a   Bontis, John N ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Unit of Minimal Access Surgery   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adenomyoma; feasibility; laparoscopy; recurrence; safety

Indexed keywords

ADENOMYOSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSMENORRHEA; FEMALE; FETUS WASTAGE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MENORRHAGIA; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADENOMYOMA; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DYSMENORRHEA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; PREGNANCY; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 41949109857     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.04.063     Document Type: Article

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