Predictive value of basal follicle-stimulating hormone concentrations in a general subfertility population

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 97-103

  Van Montfrans, Joris M ^a   Hoek, Annemieke ^b   Van Hooff, Marcel H A ^a   De Koning, Corry H ^a   Tonch, Nino ^a   Lambalk, Cornelis B ^a  

^a Res Inst Endocrinol   (Netherlands)

^b Dept Obstet Gynecol Acad H   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fecundity; FSH; General subfertility population; Ovarian aging

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE CITRATE; FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBFERTILITY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0033945219     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(00)00560-4     Document Type: Article

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