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Panayotis Xiromeritis1, Alexios Papanicolaou, Vassileios Traianos
1Department of Gynecology, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. panos.xiromeritis@tiscali.be
Fertility and Sterility
|January 18, 2006
Abstract:
This is an image case report of a 5-cm uterine adenomyoma in a 38-year-old asymptomatic woman, presenting as a vesico-uterine endometrioma in both ultrasound scan and magnetic resonance imaging.
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