Three-dimensional ultrasound assessment of endometrial receptivity: A review

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Alcázar, Juan Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NIDATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; UTERUS FUNCTION;

EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33751210939     PISSN: 14777827     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-4-56     Document Type: Review

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