Evaluation and treatment of endometriosis

American Family Physician

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 107-113

  Schrager, Sarina ^a   Falleroni, Julianne ^a   Edgoose, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; DANAZOL; DEPO SUBQ PROVERA; ESTROGEN; ETONOGESTREL; EXEMESTANE; GESTAGEN; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; INTERFERON; LETROZOLE; LEVONORGESTREL; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MIFEPRISTONE; NANDROLONE DERIVATIVE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PLACEBO; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ACNE; ACUPUNCTURE; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HIRSUTISM; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE TYPE ALOPECIA; NIGHT SWEAT; OSTEOLYSIS; OVULATION INHIBITION; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; TERATOGENICITY; THROMBOSIS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PELVIC PAIN; RISK FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874496241     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 15320650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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