Predicting the histologic dating of an endometrial biopsy specimen with the use of Doppler ultrasonography and hormone measurements in patients undergoing spontaneous ovulatory cycles

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 94-98

  Sterzik, Karl ^a   Abt, Markus ^b   Grab, Dieter ^c   Schneider, Volker ^d   Strehler, Erwin ^a  

^a Institute for Reproductive Medicine   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasound; Endometrial biopsy; Multivariate discriminant analysis; Receptivity; Spontaneous cycle

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; LUTEAL PHASE; OVULATION; PROGESTERONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULSATILE FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; UTERUS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0033958166     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00455-0     Document Type: Article

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