The presence of antithyroid antibodies in euthyroid patients with unexplained infertility and tubal obstruction

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 184-186

  Geva, Eli ^b   Lessing, Joseph B ^b   Lerner Geva, Liat ^b   Azem, Foad ^b   Yovel, Israel ^b   Amit, Ami ^a  

^a Serlin Maternity Hospital   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Reproduction infertility; Thyroid antibodies

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID FUNCTION; UTERINE TUBE OCCLUSION;

EID: 0031048346     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.1997.tb00210.x     Document Type: Article

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