Decreased endometrial vascularity in patients with antiphospholipid antibodies-associated recurrent miscarriage during midluteal phase

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Leining ^a   Quan, Song ^a   Ou, Xiang Hong ^a   Kong, Lingheng ^b  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

angiogenesis; human endometrium; recurrent miscarriage; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIAL MICROVESSEL DENSITY; ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; ENDOMETRIAL VOLUME; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; FERTILITY; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; LUTEAL PHASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSATILITY INDEX; RESISTANCE INDEX; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE ARTERY; VASCULARIZATION; VASCULARIZATION FLOW INDEX; VASCULARIZATION INDEX;

EID: 84870344297     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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