A systematic review on endometriosis during pregnancy: Diagnosis, misdiagnosis, complications and outcomes

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 70-103

  Maggiore, Umberto Leone Roberti ^a   Ferrero, Simone ^b,c   Mangili, Giorgia ^a   Bergamini, Alice ^a   Inversetti, Annalisa ^a   Giorgione, Veronica ^a   Viganò, Paola ^a   Candiani, Massimo ^d  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complication; Decidualization; Endometriosis; Placenta previa; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; ENTEROPATHY; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LIFE THREAT; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY ENDOMETRIOSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PLACENTA PREVIA; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS CONTRACTION; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; INTESTINAL DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; SKIN DISEASES; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SKIN DISEASES; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 84959081008     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmv045     Document Type: Article

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