Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 4 , Pages 1014-1018 , October 2008

Is painful rectovaginal endometriosis an intermediate stage of rectal endometriosis?

  • Horace Roman, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Rouen, Rouen, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Horace Roman, M.D., Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Rouen University Hospital, 1 rue de Germont, 76031 Rouen, France (FAX : 00-33-235-981-149).
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  • Alexis Gromez, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Rouen, Rouen, France
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  • Patrick Hochain, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Clinique du Cedre, Boisguillaume, France
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  • Nolwenn Marouteau-Pasquier, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Imagery, University Hospital Rouen, Rouen, France
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  • Jean-Jacques Tuech, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Digestive Surgery, University Hospital Rouen, Rouen, France
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  • Benoit Resch, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Rouen, Rouen, France
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  • Loic Marpeau, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Rouen, Rouen, France

Received 13 April 2007 ,Revised 27 July 2007 ,Accepted 30 July 2007.

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PII: S0015-0282(07)03045-2

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.07.1388

Fertility and Sterility
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