Ultrasonography of the ovaries and its correlation with clinical and endocrine parameters in infertile women with PCOS

International Journal of Fertility and Women's Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-47

  Sikka, Pooja ^a   Gainder, Shalini ^a   Dhaliwal, Lakhbir K ^a   Bagga, Rashmi ^a   Sialy, Ravinder ^a   Sahdev, Sumitu ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Anovulation; Infertility; PCOS; Transvaginal sonography

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; OBESITY; OLIGOMENORRHEA; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ANDROSTENEDIONE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INSULIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OLIGOMENORRHEA; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 35549009246     PISSN: 1534892X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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