Laparoscopic surgery in infertile women with minimal or mild endometriosis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 217-222

  Marcoux, Sylvie ^a,b   Maheux, Rodolphe ^a   Bérubé, Sylvie ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS WASTAGE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LAPAROSCOPY; OVARIAN DISEASES; PERITONEAL DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030811896     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199707243370401     Document Type: Article

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