Induction of a local pseudo-pregnancy for the treatment of endometriosis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 56-58

  Yuan, Peng ^a   Huang, Yanhong ^a   Cheng, Biliang ^a   Zhang, Jianfang ^a   Xin, Xiaoyan ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GESTAGEN; LEVONORGESTREL; MICROSPHERE; POLYMER; PROGESTERONE;

ARTICLE; CYSTECTOMY; DECIDUALIZATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSMENORRHEA; ENCAPSULATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NONHUMAN; OVULATION INHIBITION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PERITONEAL FLUID LEVEL; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UTERUS SURGERY;

ADULT; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES, MEDICATED; LEVONORGESTREL; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYMERS; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70450260573     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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