Etiology of endometriosis

Modern Management of Endometriosis

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 17-24

  Story, Lisa ^a   Kennedy, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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