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Endometriosis

"Endometriosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A condition in which functional endometrial tissue is present outside the UTERUS. It is often confined to the PELVIS involving the OVARY, the ligaments, cul-de-sac, and the uterovesical peritoneum.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Endometriosis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Endometriosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 31 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2007 and 2008 and 2021 and 2022
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