Uterine anomaly and recurrent pregnancy loss

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 514-521

  Sugiura Ogasawara, Mayumi ^a   Ozaki, Yasuhiko ^a   Katano, Kinue ^a   Suzumori, Nobuhiro ^a   Mizutani, Eita ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bicornuate uterus; congenital uterine anomaly; recurrent pregnancy loss; septate uterus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYSTERORRHAPHY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY LOSS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UTERUS BICORNIS; UTERUS MALFORMATION; UTERUS SEPTUS;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERUS;

EID: 83455258682     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1293205     Document Type: Article

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