Müllerian duct anomalies: Review of current management

Sao Paulo Medical Journal

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 92-96

  Ribeiro, Sérgio Conti ^a,b   Tormena, Renata Assef ^a   Peterson, Thais Villela ^a   Gonzáles, Marina de Oliveira ^a   Serrano, Priscila Gonçalves ^a   de Almeida, José Alcione Macedo ^a   Baracat, Edmund Chada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Universidade de São Paulo ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Embryonic development; Gynecology; Infertility; Laparoscopy; M llerian ducts; Urogenital abnormalities

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MUELLERIAN DUCT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURE LABOR; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UTERUS BICORNIS; UTERUS DIDELPHYS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MULLERIAN DUCTS; UROGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349573372     PISSN: 15163180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-31802009000200007     Document Type: Review

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