Phenotypic characterisation of the inner and outer myometrium in normal and adenomyotic uteri

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 217-224

  Mehasseb, Mohamed Khairy ^a   Bell, Stephen Charles ^a   Brown, Laurence ^b   Pringle, James Howard ^a   Habiba, Marwan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adenomyosis; Hyperplasia; Hypertrophy; Image analysis; Immunohistochemistry; Junctional zone; Myometrium

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; DESMIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ADENOMYOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; HYPERTROPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNER MYOMETRIUM; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MOUSE; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; OUTER MYOMETRIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS; ZONATION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; DESMIN; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYOMETRIUM; PHENOTYPE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERUS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 79959292852     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: 1423002X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000318205     Document Type: Article

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