Adenomyosis and infertility

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-46

  Campo, Sebastiano ^a   Campo, Vincenzo ^a   Benagiano, Giuseppe ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

adenomyosis; adenomyosis treatment; infertility; junctional zone; myometrium; uterine environment

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR1; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR2; CYTOCHROME P450; DANAZOL; FREE RADICAL; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA10; VASCULOTROPIN; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

ADENOMYOMECTOMY; ADENOMYOSIS; CORPUS LUTEUM; CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION; DECIDUALIZATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; MYOMETRIUM; NERVE FIBER; NIDATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSTETRIC PROCEDURE; OVULATION; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS; UTERUS RUPTURE;

ADULT; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREE RADICALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFERTILITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOMETRIUM; PERISTALSIS; PREGNANCY; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS;

EID: 84855342930     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.10.003     Document Type: Review

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