Prevalence of uterine anomalies and their impact on early pregnancy in women conceiving after assisted reproduction treatment

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 727-732

  Jayaprakasan, K ^a,b   Chan, Y Y ^a   Sur, S ^a   Deb, S ^a   Clewes, J S ^a   Raine Fenning, N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction; congenital uterine anomalies; in vitro fertilization; miscarriage; M llerian anomalies; prevalence; subfertility; three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATISTICS; UTERUS;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; UTERUS;

EID: 79957622747     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.8968     Document Type: Article

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