The association between endometriosis and chronic endometritis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Takebayashi, Akie ^a   Kimura, Fuminori ^a   Kishi, Yohei ^b   Ishida, Mitsuaki ^a   Takahashi, Akimasa ^a   Yamanaka, Akiyoshi ^a   Takahashi, Kentaro ^a   Suginami, Hiroshi ^b   Murakami, Takashi ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Takanohara Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMYOSIS; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC ENDOMETRITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; LEIOMYOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; CHEMISTRY; COMPLICATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTERUS;

SYNDECAN 1;

ADENOMYOSIS; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LEIOMYOMA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNDECAN-1; UTERUS;

EID: 84895896921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088354     Document Type: Article

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