Vaginal aplasia and reconstruction

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 185-191

  Creatsas, G ^a   Deligeoroglou, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Mayer Rokitansky K ster Hauser syndrome; Vaginal agenesis; Vaginal aplasia; Vaginoplasty

Indexed keywords

BLADDER INJURY; HUMAN; NONSURGICAL INVASIVE THERAPY; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM INJURY; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA INJURY; VAGINA APLASIA; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; SURGICALLY-CREATED STRUCTURES; SYNDROME; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949271434     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2009.11.002     Document Type: Review

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