The relationship of early follicular phase serum lh and pregnancy rates in women with regular menses

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 291-296

  Check, Jerome H ^a,b   Peymer, Mark ^a,b   Lurie, Deborah ^a,b   Suryanarayan, Chitoor ^a,b  

^a University of Medicine   (United States)

^b Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE CITRATE; FOLLITROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MIDDLE AGED; OVULATION INDUCTION; PERIODICITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 0030021446     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00006250-199602000-00026     Document Type: Article

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