3D-Endometrial volume and outcome of cryopreserved embryo replacement cycles

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 286, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 517-523

  Zollner, Ursula ^a,b   Specketer, Marie Theres ^c   Dietl, Johannes ^a   Zollner, Klaus Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c KRANKENHAUS NORDWEST   (Germany)

^d Kinderwunschzentrum Amberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Embryo transfer; Endometrial thickness; Endometrial volume; Three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIDATION; OVULATION; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOGRAPHY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE MONITORING;

EID: 84864423107     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-012-2332-4     Document Type: Article

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