52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, 2-6 November 1996: Correlation of basal menses CA-125 levels and 6 month pregnancy rates in women undergoing treatments for infertility without assisted reproductive methods

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 315-319

  Check, Jerome H ^a,b   Cohen, Rachel ^a   Peymer, Mark ^a   Resnick, Michael ^a   Suryanarayan, Chitoor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo toxic factors; Endometriosis; Fecundity; Unexplained infertility

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; PROGESTERONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DONOR; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPERM; ARTICLE; BLOOD; FOLLOW UP; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; TIME;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CA-125 ANTIGEN; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031113250     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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