Fifteen-year trend in the use of reproductive surgery in women in the United States

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 727-735

  Ketefian, Aline ^a   Hu, Jianfang ^b   Bartolucci, Alfred A ^b   Azziz, Ricardo ^a,c  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

assisted reproductive technology; infertility; Reproductive surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSTETRIC OPERATION; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; UTERINE TUBE SURGERY;

FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67651122977     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.06.041     Document Type: Article

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