Urinary tract endometriosis in patients with deep infiltrating endometriosis: Prevalence, symptoms, management, and proposal for a new clinical classification

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 147-152

  Knabben, Laura ^a   Imboden, Sara ^a   Fellmann, Bernhard ^a   Nirgianakis, Konstantinos ^a   Kuhn, Annette ^a   Mueller, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Deep infiltrating endometriosis; Rectovaginal endometriotic nodule; Ureteral endometriosis; Ureterolysis; Urinary tract endometriosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER ENDOMETRIOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEEP INFILTRATING ENDOMETRIOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPAREUNIA; DYSURIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECURRENT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URETERAL ENDOMETRIOSIS; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINARY TRACT ENDOMETRIOSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NOMENCLATURE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWITZERLAND; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; UROLOGIC DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SWITZERLAND; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UROLOGIC DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924359751     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.09.028     Document Type: Article

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