Adenomyosis and subfertility: Evidence of association and causation

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 101-108

  Tomassetti, Carla ^a   Meuleman, Christel ^a   Timmerman, Dirk ^b   D'Hooghe, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

adenomyosis; causality; infertility

Indexed keywords

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ADENOMYOSIS; ARTICLE; BABOON; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCEPTION; DECIDUALIZATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LAPAROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOMYOSIS; ANIMALS; CAUSALITY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84874364258     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1333475     Document Type: Article

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