Single versus double intrauterine insemination: Are outcomes affected?

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 251-256

  Zeyneloglu, Hulusi Bulent ^a,b  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Mesa Koru Sitesi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Controlled ovarian hyperstimulation; Double insemination; Intrauterine insemination; Superovulation

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; FOLLITROPIN;

ANOVULATION; CELL MATURATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; STIMULATION; SUPEROVULATION; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE TUBE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SUPEROVULATION;

EID: 2542583799     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001703-200406000-00008     Document Type: Review

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