The effect of the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system and the copper intrauterine device on subendometrial microvascularization and uterine artery blood flow

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1574-1578

  Jiménez, Mirela Foresti ^a   Arbo, Elisangela ^a   Vetori, Daniela ^a   de Freitas, Fernando Monteiro ^a   Cunha Filho, João Sabino Lahorgue ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

color; Doppler; Intrauterine devices; LNG IUS; microvascular density; power Doppler; TCU 380A; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

COPPER INTRAUTERINE DEVICE; LEVONORGESTREL;

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROVASCULARIZATION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ARTERIES; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES, COPPER; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES, MEDICATED; LEVONORGESTREL; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUTEAL PHASE; MICROVESSELS; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; UTERUS;

EID: 54249129082     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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