The role of the immune response in endometriosis

Endometriosis: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatments

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 42-72

  Berbic, Marina ^a   Hey Cunningham, Alison J ^a   Ng, Cecilia ^a   Tokushige, Natsuko ^a   Maridas, David ^a   Ganewatta, Subha ^a   Markham, Robert ^a   Fraser, Ian S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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