Female genital anomalies affecting reproduction

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 899-915

  Lin, Paul C ^a,c   Bhatnagar, Kunwar P ^b   Nettleton, G Stephen ^b   Nakajima, Steven T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryology; Fertility; Genital anomalities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILITY; GENITAL MALFORMATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT ABORTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCTION; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE TUBE; UTERUS; UTERUS MALFORMATION; VAGINA; WORK CAPACITY;

EID: 0036842401     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)03368-X     Document Type: Review

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