Establishing the intercycle variability of three-dimensional ultrasonographic predictors of ovarian reserve

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2126-2132

  Jayaprakasan, Kannamannadiar ^a   Campbell, Bruce ^a   Hopkisson, James ^a   Clewes, Jeanette ^a   Johnson, Ian ^a   Raine Fenning, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antral follicle count; follicle stimulating hormone; in vitro fertilization; intercycle variability; ovarian reserve; ovarian volume; three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VEIN PUNCTURE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFERTILITY; OBSERVER VARIATION; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARIAN FUNCTION TESTS; OVARY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 56949084089     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.10.028     Document Type: Article

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