Update on the surgical management of adenomyosis

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 259-264

  Pepas, Litha ^a   Deguara, Christine ^a   Davis, Colin ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adenomyomectomy; adenomyosis; cytoreductive surgery

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADENOMYOSIS; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; EXCISION; FEMALE FERTILITY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; MENORRHAGIA; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SINGLE INCISION LAPAROSCOPIC HYSTERECTOMY; TUMOR ABLATION; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COUNSELING; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INFERTILITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863723859     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: 1473656X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0b013e328355213a     Document Type: Review

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