Endometriose

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Fertil Steril 72: 961 Editor information Editors and Affiliations Rights and permissions Copyright information © 2005 Springer Medizin Verlag Heidelberg About this chapter Cite this chapter Malik, E. (2005). Endometriose. In: Leidenberger, F., Strowitzki, T., Ortmann, O. (eds) Klinische Endokrinologie für Frauenärzte. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26406-X_20 Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26406-X_20 Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg Print ISBN: 978-3-540-44162-5 Online ISBN: 978-3-540-26406-4 eBook Packages: Medicine (German Language)