Reproductive outcome after hysteroscopic septoplasty in patients with septate uterus - a retrospective cohort study and systematic review of the literature

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nouri, Kazem ^a   Ott, Johannes ^a   Huber, Johannes C ^a   Fischer, Eva Maria ^a   Stögbauer, Lucija ^a   Tempfer, Clemens B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVE BIRTH; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UTERUS DISEASE; UTERUS PERFORATION; UTERUS SEPTUS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERUS;

EID: 77952463822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-8-52     Document Type: Review

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