Endometriosis: The consequence of neurological dysfunction?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 602-608

  Quinn, Martin ^a  

^a HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; DEFECATION; DENERVATION; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPAREUNIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPISIOTOMY; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROTOMY; MENSTRUATION; METAPLASIA; NERVE FIBER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NULLIPARA; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINNERVATION; REVIEW; SUBFERTILITY; SYMPTOM; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME; TISSUE INJURY; UTERINE TUBE; UTERUS CAVITY; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

FALLOPIA;

EID: 8444250540     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.03.032     Document Type: Article

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