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No ORCID on file · 1 paper in corpus · active 2001

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  • review 1

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  • endometriosis 1
review 2001
Tissue-specific estrogen biosynthesis and metabolism
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb04002.x

While the ovaries are the principal source of systemic estrogen in the premenopausal nonpregnant woman, other sites of estrogen biosynthesis are present throughout the body and these become the major sources of estrogen beyond menopause. Th…