Repeated laparoscopic ovarian diathermy is effective in women with anovulatory infertility due to polycystic ovary syndrome

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1211-1215

  Amer, Saad Ali Kamel S ^a   Li, Tin Chiu ^a   Cooke, Ian Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic surgery; Ovarian diathermy; Ovarian drilling; Polycystic ovarian syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATHERMY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LAPAROSCOPIC OVARIAN DIATHERMY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0037962879     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04960-9     Document Type: Article

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