Best practices of ASRM and ESHRE: A journey through reproductive medicine

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1380-1394

  Gianaroli, Luca ^a   Racowsky, Catherine ^b   Geraedts, Joep ^c   Cedars, Marcelle ^d   Makrigiannakis, Antonis ^e   Lobo, Roger A ^f  

^a Reproductive Medicine Unit   (Italy)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; embryo implantation; menopause; ovarian cancer; reproductive endocrinology

Indexed keywords

ANTIESTROGEN; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GLUCOSE; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METFORMIN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CUMULUS CELL; DNA STRUCTURE; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SCREENING; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; HYPERANDROGENISM; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LAPAROENDOSCOPIC SINGLE SITE SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUATION; MITOSIS; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSUMBILICAL SURGERY; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARIAN RESERVE; OVARIAN STIMULATION; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION INDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTOR; ROBOTICS; SINGLE INCISION LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE PORT ACCESS; STIMULATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BENCHMARKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 84870377395     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.07.1164     Document Type: Article

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