The modern infertility evaluation

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 692-705

  Fritz, Marc A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

hysterosalpingography; infertility; ovarian reserve; ovulation; semen analysis

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ADNEXAL ADHESION; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSULTATION; CORPUS LUTEUM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MENSTRUATION; OVARIAN RESERVE; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVULATION; PERITONEUM ADHESION; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROGNOSIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE TUBE;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OVULATION DETECTION; PROGNOSIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864407646     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: 15325520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GRF.0b013e31825cab55     Document Type: Article

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