Umbilical endometriosis, our experience

In Vivo

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 811-816

  Dessy, Luca A ^a   Buccheri, Ernesto M ^a   Chiummariello, Stefano ^b   Gagliardi, Davide N ^a,c   Onesti, Maria G ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ectopic endometriosis; Umbilical reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HERNIA; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UMBILICAL ENDOMETRIOSIS; UMBILICUS;

EID: 57849129924     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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