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Mouse Model of Surgically-induced Endometriosis by Auto-transplantation of Uterine Tissue
Published on: January 6, 2012
[Clinical and histopathologic features of the uterine lipoleiomyoma]
H Katabuchi1, A Ohshige, S Matsumura
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine.
Nihon Sanka Fujinka Gakkai Zasshi
|December 1, 1996
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