Role of saline infusion sonography in uterine evaluation before frozen embryo transfer cycle

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 562-566

  Gera, Puja S ^a   Allemand, Michael C ^a   Tatpati, Laura L ^a   Galanits, Terri M ^a   Morbeck, Dean ^a   Coddington, Charles C ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

frozen embryo transfer; IVF embryo transfer; SIS; sonohysterography; uterine anomalies

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYST; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; HYSTEROGRAPHY; HYSTEROSCOPY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALINE INFUSION ECHOGRAPHY; STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTERUS; UTERUS CAVITY; UTERUS MALFORMATION;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERUS;

EID: 40249098714     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.03.067     Document Type: Article

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