Subfertility associated with minimal to mild endometriosis: Main mechanisms

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1034-1042

  Panidis, Dimitrios K ^a   Matalliotakis, Ioannis M ^b,c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b General National Hospital   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Fertility; Infertility, female

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; NIDATION; OVULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBFERTILITY;

EID: 0032428746     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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