The predictive value of the automated quantification of the number and size of small antral follicles in women undergoing ART

Human Reproduction

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2124-2132

  Deb, S ^a   Batcha, M ^a   Campbell, B K ^a   Jayaprakasan, K ^a   Clewes, J S ^a   Hopkisson, J F ^a   Sjoblom, C ^a   Raine Fenning, N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Measurement; Small antral follicles; Three dimensional; Treatment; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; NAFARELIN ACETATE; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMANS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68949217133     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dep204     Document Type: Article

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