Infertility evaluation and management. Strategies for family physicians

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 49, Issue NOV., 2003, Pages 1465-1472

  Case, Allison M ^a  

^a ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; FOLIC ACID; INSULIN; METFORMIN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

AGE; ANOVULATION; BASAL BODY TEMPERATURE; DRUG COST; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OVARY CANCER; OVARY CYST; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; REVIEW; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CANADA; CLOMIPHENE; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY;

EID: 0344444258     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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