Assessment of three-dimensional sonographic features of polycystic ovaries after laparoscopic ovarian electrocautery

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 894-899

  Vizer, Miklós ^a   Kiesel, Ludwig ^b   Szabó, István ^a   Arany, Antal ^a   Tamás, Péter ^a   Szilágyi, András ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

laparoscopy; Polycystic ovary; three dimensional; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; STEROID; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HISTOGRAM; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY BLOOD FLOW; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEROID URINE LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COLOR POWER ANGIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LAPAROSCOPY; OVARY; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME;

EID: 34848914460     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.08.117     Document Type: Article

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