Serum Antiendometrial Antibodies and Diagnosis of Endometriosis

200743 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Gary W. Randall · West Virginia University Hospitals

Pickens A. Gantt

Robin L. Poe‐Zeigler · Virginia Center for Reproductive Medicine

Cynthia A. Bergmann · Women’s Health Care

Marshall E. Noel · Women’s Health Care

Wendy R. Strawbridge

Barbara Richardson‐Cox

John R. Hereford

Robert H. Reiff

Abstract

The AEA assay is a very good screening test for patients suspected of having endometriosis and should be utilized prior to laparoscopy in diagnostic categories of dysmenorrhea or chronic pelvic pain and infertility.

Topics & Keywords

Endometriosis Research and Treatment Reproductive System and Pregnancy Uterine Myomas and Treatments

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volume 58, Issue 4, pp. 374-382

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2007.00523.x

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