Are endometrial parameters by three-dimensional ultrasound and power Doppler angiography related to in vitro fertilization/embryo transfer outcome?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 111-117

  Mercé, Luis T ^a   Barco, María J ^b   Bau, Santiago ^a   Troyano, Juan ^c  

^a Ruber International Hospital   (Spain)

^b Lozano Blesa Clinical Hospital   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound; endometrial blood flow; endometrial volume; IVF; power Doppler indexes; pregnancy rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 38049100968     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.02.029     Document Type: Article

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