Histologic classification of specimens from women affected by superficial endometriosis, deeply infiltrating endometriosis, and ovarian endometriomas

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2074-2077

  Kamergorodsky, Gil ^a   Ribeiro, Paulo Augusto Ayroza ^a   Galvão, Maria Antonieta Longo ^a   Abrão, Maurício Simões ^a   Donadio, Nilson ^a   de Barros Moreira Lemos, Nucélio Luiz ^a   Aoki, Tsutomu ^a  

^a FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS MÉDICAS DA SANTA CASA DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE; LIGAMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OVARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTEROSACRAL LIGAMENT; VAGINA;

ADULT; BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; OVARIAN DISEASES; OVARY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 70749140491     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.05.086     Document Type: Article

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