Villar's nodule: A rare presentation of external endometriosis

Medical Journal Armed Forces India

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-71

  Panicker, R ^a   Pillai, N ^b   Nagarsekar, U ^b  

^a Obstetrics and Gynaecology   (India)

^b Mormugao Port Trust Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Cyclical pain; Extra gonadal; Metaplasia; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYST; CYSTECTOMY; DYSMENORRHEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EXCISION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; ULTRASOUND; UMBILICAL ENDOMETRIOSIS;

EID: 76149102252     PISSN: 03771237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-1237(10)80101-7     Document Type: Article

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