Successful pregnancies in women with diffuse uterine leiomyomatosis after hysteroscopic management

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1667-1673

  Yen, Chih Feng ^a,b   Lee, Chyi Long ^a   Wang, Chin Jung ^a   Soong, Yung Kuei ^a   Arici, Aydin ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse uterine leiomyomatosis; hysteroscopic myomectomy; pregnancy; recurrence; uterine synechiae

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUATION; MYOMECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTERUS; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS SYNECHIA;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 36749007310     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.01.100     Document Type: Article

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