Familial aggregation of endometriosis in the Yale Series

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 278, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 507-511

  Matalliotakis, Ioannis M ^a,b   Arici, Aydin ^a   Cakmak, Hakan ^a   Goumenou, Anastasia G ^b   Koumantakis, Georgios ^b   Mahutte, Neal G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Epidemiology; Familial risk; Family history; Yale series

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUATION; MOTHER; RELATIVE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; CONNECTICUT; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 54349084846     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-008-0644-1     Document Type: Article

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