Patients With Endometriosis of the Rectosigmoid Have a Higher Percentage of Natural Killer Cells in Peripheral Blood

Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 317-324

  Dias, João Antonio ^a   Podgaec, Sérgio ^a   de Oliveira, Ricardo Manoel ^b   Carnevale Marin, Maria Lucia ^a   Baracat, Edmund Chadad ^a   Abrão, Mauricio Simões ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b RDO Diagnosticos Medicos   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Endometriosis; Natural killer cells; Rectosigmoid endometriosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS OF THE RECTOSIGMOID; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; SIGMOID DISEASES;

EID: 84860377771     PISSN: 15534650     EISSN: 15534669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2011.12.021     Document Type: Article

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