Clinical assessment and management of the endometrium in recurrent early pregnancy loss

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 491-506

  Patel, Bansari G ^a   Lessey, Bruce A ^a  

^a GREENVILLE HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

endometriosis; endometrium; hydrosalpinges; luteal phase defect; Miscarriage; pregnancy loss

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CADHERIN; CYTOKINE; MICRORNA; SELECTIN;

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DNA MICROARRAY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPIGENETICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMPLANTATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PINOPOD; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY LOSS; PROTEOMICS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SONOHYSTEROGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; THYROTROPIN; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 83455205653     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1293203     Document Type: Article

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