Does methotrexate treatment for ectopic pregnancy influence the patient's performance during a subsequent in vitro fertilization/embryo transfer cycle?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1685-1686

  Orvieto, Raoul ^a   Kruchkovich, Jenya ^a   Zohav, Efraim ^a   Rabinson, Jacob ^a   Anteby, Eyal Y ^a   Meltcer, Simion ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OVARY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ADULT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36749030651     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.01.064     Document Type: Article

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