Chronic endometritis: correlation among hysteroscopic, histologic, and bacteriologic findings in a prospective trial with 2190 consecutive office hysteroscopies

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 677-684

  Cicinelli, Ettore ^a   De Ziegler, Dominique ^b   Nicoletti, Roberto ^a   Colafiglio, Giuseppe ^a   Saliani, Nicola ^a   Resta, Leonardo ^a   Rizzi, Donatella ^a   De Vito, Danila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

bacteria; Chlamydia; chronic endometritis; Infectious agents; infertility; Ureaplasma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADULT; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLAMYDIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; MYCOPLASMA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OFFICE VISITS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOMYCES; UREAPLASMA; UTERUS; VAGINA;

EID: 40249084225     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.03.074     Document Type: Article

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