Redefining Reproductive Surgery

Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 296-306

  Tulandi, Togas ^a   Marzal, Alicia ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fertility preservation; Hysteroscopy; In vitro fertilization; Infertility; Infertility surgery; IVF; Laparoscopy; Minimally invasive surgery; Reproductive surgery

Indexed keywords

CRYOPRESERVATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EXCISION; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FENESTRATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYDROSALPINX; HYSTEROSCOPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MYOMECTOMY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PARTHENOGENESIS; POLYPECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SALPINGECTOMY; SALPINGOPLASTY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LAPAROSCOPY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 84860368011     PISSN: 15534650     EISSN: 15534669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2012.01.010     Document Type: Review

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