Comparison of characteristics of fibroids in African American and white women undergoing premenopausal hysterectomy

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Moorman, Patricia G ^a   Leppert, Phyllis ^a   Myers, Evan R ^a   Wang, Frances ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Fibroids; hysterectomy; leiomyomas

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DYSMENORRHEA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERVIEW; LEIOMYOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENORRHAGIA; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA; UTERUS; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; PREMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875223864     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.10.039     Document Type: Article

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