No clinical relevance of the height of fundal indentation in subseptate or arcuate uterus: A prospective study

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 576-582

  Gergolet, Marco ^a   Campo, Rudi ^b   Verdenik, Ivan ^c   Šuster, Nataša Kenda ^c   Gordts, Stephan ^b   Gianaroli, Luca ^d  

^a SIFES Doo   (Slovenia)

^b LEUVEN INSTITUTE FOR FERTILITY AND EMBRYOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d Reproductive Medicine Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

arcuate uterus; congenital uterine anomalies classification; hysteroscopic metroplasty; septate uterus; spontaneous miscarriage; subseptate uterus

Indexed keywords

ARCUATE UTERUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPIC METROPLASTY; HYSTEROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SUBSEPTATE UTERUS; UTERUS; UTERUS MALFORMATION; UTERUS SURGERY;

EID: 84861096483     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2012.01.025     Document Type: Article

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