Intestinal endometriosis: The great masquerader

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 405-409

  Skoog, Suzanne M ^a   Foxx Orenstein, Amy E ^a   Levy, Michael J ^a   Rajan, Elizabeth ^a   Session, Donna R ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIESTROGEN; ANTIGESTAGEN; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; BARIUM; DANAZOL; ENEMA; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; GESTRINONE; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; GOSERELIN; LEUPRORELIN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MEGESTROL ACETATE; NAFARELIN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR MODULATOR; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACNE; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; BARIUM ENEMA; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHRONICITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEFECATION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENTEROPATHY; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; FLUID RETENTION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INTESTINE METAPLASIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE RADIOGRAPHY; IRRITABLE COLON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MOOD DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SIDE EFFECT; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE; UTERUS DISEASE; VAGINA DISEASE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 8344247791     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-004-0058-6     Document Type: Review

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