Prospective randomized double-blind trial of the correlation between time of administration and antiestrogenic effects of clomiphene citrate on reproductive end organs

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 633-638

  Biljan, Marinko M ^a   Mahutte, Neal G ^a   Tulandi, Togas ^a   Tan, Seang Lin ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clomiphene citrate; Intrauterine insemination; Time of administration; Unexplained infertility

Indexed keywords

ANTIESTROGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; ESTROGEN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UTERINE ARTERY;

ADULT; CLOMIPHENE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PLACEBOS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULSATILE FLOW; UTERUS;

EID: 0033023330     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00534-2     Document Type: Article

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