Relationships between pregnancy rates following in vitro fertilization or intracytoplasmic sperm injection and endometrial thickness and pattern

European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 179-184

  Rashidi, Batool Hosseini ^a   Sadeghi, Mandana ^a   Jafarabadi, Mina ^a   Nejad, Ensiyeh Shahrokh Tehrani ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Endothelial pattern; Endothelial thickness; Human chorionic gonadotropin; Outcome of IVF ICSI cycles; Pregnancy rate

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 19944414998     PISSN: 03012115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2004.08.016     Document Type: Article

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