A retrospective cross-sectional study: Fresh cycle endometrial thickness is a sensitive predictor of inadequate endometrial thickness in frozen embryo transfer cycles

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jimenez, Patricia T ^a   Schon, Samantha B ^b   Odem, Randall R ^b   Ratts, Valerie S ^b   Jungheim, Emily S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrial thickness; Estrogen supplementation; Frozen embryo transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FRESH CYCLE ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; FROZEN EMBRYO TRANSFER; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NULLIPARA; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGESTERONE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877260087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-11-35     Document Type: Article

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