Hard to conceive

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 965-970

  Levison, Julie H ^a   Barbieri, Robert L ^a   Katz, Joel T ^a   Loscalzo, Joseph ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; PYRIDOXINE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYPERANDROGENISM; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PERITONEUM ADHESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TUBERCULIN TEST; UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS; BIOPSY; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; GRANULOMA; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BIOPSY; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77956291316     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcps0810360     Document Type: Article

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