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Celiac disease and endometriosis: what is the nexus?

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    Raffaella Mormile

  2. Division of Gynecology, San Carlo di Nancy Hospital, Rome, Italy

    Giorgio Vittori

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Mormile, R., Vittori, G. Celiac disease and endometriosis: what is the nexus?. Arch Gynecol Obstet 288, 1197–1198 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-013-2928-3

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