Endometrial polyps in infertile patients: Do high concentrations of interferon-gamma play a role?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1209-1212

  Mollo, Antonio ^a   Stile, Antonella ^a   Alviggi, Carlo ^a   Granata, Marcello ^a   De Placido, Giuseppe ^a   Perrella, Alessandro ^b   D'Antonio, Anna ^b   Cicinelli, Ettore ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b AO Dei Colli Hospital for Infectious Diseases D Cotugno   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

endometrial polyps; endometritis; IFN ; Infertility

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENDOMETRIUM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; ITALY; LINEAR MODELS; POLYPS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UP-REGULATION; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 80054987990     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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