Reproductive outcome after laparoscopic myomectomy for intramural myomas in infertile women with or without associated infertility factors

Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-35

  Morita, Mineto ^a   Asakawa, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infertility; Intramural myoma; Laparoscopic myomectomy; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; MYOMECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR FORMATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS RUPTURE;

EID: 33748447301     PISSN: 14455781     EISSN: 14470578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0578.2006.00120.x     Document Type: Article

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