Cochrane review: Post-operative procedures for improving fertility following pelvic reproductive surgery

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 259-267

  Johnson, N P ^a   Watson, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b TAMESIDE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adhesiolysis; Hydrotubation; Infertility; Post operative; Second look laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; STEROID;

BIRTH RATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UTERINE TUBE SURGERY;

EID: 0034089423     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/6.3.259     Document Type: Review

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