Hysteroscopic findings in women with two and with more than two first-trimester miscarriages are not significantly different

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 230-236

  Bohlmann, Michael K ^a   Von Wolff, Michael ^b   Luedders, Doerte W ^a   Beuter Winkler, Petra ^c   Diedrich, Klaus ^a   Hornemann, Amadeus ^a   Strowitzki, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

acquired; congenital; hysteroscopy; recurrent miscarriages; uterine anomaly

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY; PROTEIN S; PROTHROMBIN;

ADHESION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; HYSTEROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTATION; POLYP; PROTEIN S DEFICIENCY; RECURRENT ABORTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UTERUS MALFORMATION; UTERUS MYOMA;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 78650199020     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2010.04.016     Document Type: Article

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