Adenomyosis and 'endometrial-subendometrial myometrium unit disruption disease' are two different entities

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 281-291

  Tocci, Angelo ^a   Greco, Ermanno ^a   Ubaldi, Filippo Maria ^b  

^a EUROPEAN HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Reproductive Medicine Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adenomyosis; Diagnosis; Infertility; Natural conception

Indexed keywords

ADENOMYOSIS; CELL HYPERPLASIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIAL DISEASE; ENDOMETRIAL SUBENDOMETRIAL MYOMETRIUM UNIT DISRUPTION DISEASE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROGRAPHY; HYSTEROSCOPY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MYOMETRIUM; MYOMETRIUM THICKNESS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE PERISTALTIC CONTRACTION; UTERUS BIOPSY; UTERUS CONTRACTION; BIOPSY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; UTERUS; UTERUS DISEASE;

BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERUS;

EID: 49749143342     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1472-6483(10)60207-6     Document Type: Review

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