Sources of heterogeneities in estimating the prevalence of endometriosis in infertile and previously fertile women

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1584-1595

  Guo, Sun Wei ^a   Wang, Yuedong ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; fertility; heterogeneity; infertility; prevalence

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILE PERIOD; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMORBIDITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33751174076     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.04.040     Document Type: Article

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