Primary umbilical endometriosis: A rare variant of extragenital endometriosis

Pathologica

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 473-475

  Khaled, Aïda ^a,b   Hammami, H ^a   Fazaa, B ^a   Zermani, R ^a   Jilant, S Ben ^a   Kamoun, M R ^a  

^a CHARLES NICOLLE HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^b NONE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Primary umbilical endometriosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NULLIPARA; PATIENT REFERRAL; RARE DISEASE; SKIN BIOPSY; UMBILICAL ENDOMETRIOSIS;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; UMBILICUS;

EID: 65649100132     PISSN: 00312983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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