Combined analysis of endometrial thickness and pattern in predicting outcome of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer: A retrospective cohort study

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chen, Shi Ling ^a   Wu, Fang Rong ^a   Luo, Chen ^a   Chen, Xin ^a   Shi, Xiao Yun ^a   Zheng, Hai Yan ^a   Ni, Yun Ping ^a  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ANTRAL FOLLICULAR COUNT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LUTEAL PHASE; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THICKNESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ENDOMETRIUM; EVALUATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METHODOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951898365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-8-30     Document Type: Article

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