Hyperstimulation during IVF cycles does not modify dimensions of small subserosal and intramural leiomyomas

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2489-2491

  Benaglia, Laura ^a,b   Somigliana, Edgardo ^a   De Benedictis, Silvia ^a,b   Paffoni, Alessio ^a   Scarduelli, Claudia ^a   Fedele, Luigi ^a,b   Ragni, Guido ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

fibroid; IVF; Leiomyoma; myoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAMURAL LEIOMYOMA; LEIOMYOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBSEROSAL LEIOMYOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; ITALY; LEIOMYOMA; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR BURDEN; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79959727751     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.12.051     Document Type: Article

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