No difference in cycle pregnancy rate and in cumulative live-birth rate between women with surgically treated minimal to mild endometriosis and women with unexplained infertility after controlled ovarian hyperstimulation and intrauterine insemination

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 566-571

  Werbrouck, Erika ^a   Spiessens, Carl ^a   Meuleman, Christel ^a   D'Hooghe, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

controlled ovarian hyperstimulation; Intrauterine insemination; minimal to mild endometriosis; unexplained infertility

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE CITRATE; GONADOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVE BIRTH; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748113142     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.01.044     Document Type: Article

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