Endometriosis and assisted reproduction: The role for reproductive surgery?

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 374-379

  De Hondt, Annemieke ^a   Meuleman, Christel ^a   Tomassetti, Carla ^a   Peeraer, Karen ^a   D'Hooghe, Thomas M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Endometriosis; In vitro fertilization; Intra uterine insemination; Reproductive surgery

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW;

ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 33745661237     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.gco.0000233929.27145.f3     Document Type: Review

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