Endometriosis Lesions That Compromise the Rectum Deeper Than the Inner Muscularis Layer Have More Than 40% of the Circumference of the Rectum Affected by the Disease

Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 280-285

  Abrão, Mauricio Simoes ^a,b   Podgaec, Sergio ^a,b   Dias Jr , João Antonio ^a,b   Averbach, Marcelo ^b   Silva, Luis Fernando Ferraz ^a   de Carvalho, Filomena Marino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL SÍRIO LIBANÊS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bowel; Endometriosis; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MORPHOMETRICS; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM; RECTUM RESECTION; RISK FACTOR; SIGMOID; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THICKNESS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; COLON, SIGMOID; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUM;

EID: 42249099179     PISSN: 15534650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2008.01.006     Document Type: Article

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