Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 6 , Pages 2075.e7-2075.e9 , April 2010

Genital schistosomiasis as a cause of female sterility and acute abdomen

  • Andrea Schanz, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Düsseldorf, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Andrea Schanz, M.D., Heinrich-Heine-Universität Frauenklinik, Department of OBGYN, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany (TEL: +49-211-8104376; FAX: +49-211-8104380).
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  • Joachim Richter, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Tropical Medicine Unit, University Hospital for Gastroenterology, Hepatology und Infectious Diseases, Düsseldorf, Germany
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  • Ines Beyer, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Düsseldorf, Germany
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  • Stephan Ernst Baldus, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Insitute of Pathology Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
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  • Alexandra Petra Hess, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Düsseldorf, Germany
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  • Jan Steffen Kruessel, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Düsseldorf, Germany

Received 22 January 2009 ,Revised 19 May 2009 ,Accepted 19 May 2009.

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 A.S. has nothing to disclose. J.R. has nothing to disclose. I.B. has nothing to disclose. S.E.B. has nothing to disclose. A.P.H. has nothing to disclose. J.S.K. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)01197-2

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.05.043

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