Comparison of treatment outcomes of infertile women by clomiphene citrate and letrozole with gonadotropins underwent intrauterine insemination

Acta Medica Iranica

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-20

  Zadehmodares, Shahrzad ^a   Niyakan, Mahnaz ^a   Sharafy, Seyede Afsar ^a   Yazdi, Maryam Hosseinnezhad ^a   Jahed, Fatemeh ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Clomiphene citrate; Gonadotropin; Infertility; Letrozole

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; LETROZOLE; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CLOMIPHENE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; IRAN; MALE; NITRILES; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZOLES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856033706     PISSN: 00446025     EISSN: 17359694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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