Submucous myomas and their implications in the pregnancy rates of patients with otherwise unexplained primary infertility undergoing hysteroscopic myomectomy: a randomized matched control study

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 724-729

  Shokeir, Tarek ^a   El Shafei, Muhammed ^a   Yousef, Hamed ^a   Allam, Abdel Fattah ^a   Sadek, Ehab ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

hysteroscopic myomectomy; infertility; Submucous myoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOMA; MYOMECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UTERUS BIOPSY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LEIOMYOMA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953694692     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.03.075     Document Type: Article

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