Endometriosis Fertility Index: Is it better than the present staging systems?

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 186-192

  Adamson, G David ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Fertility; Index; Pregnancy rate; Staging

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LEPTIN; LIPOCORTIN 5; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; PLACENTA PROTEIN 14; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADENOMYOSIS; APPENDECTOMY; BIRTH RATE; BLADDER SURGERY; DESICCATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSMENORRHEA; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS FERTILITY INDEX; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; EXCISION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; HUMAN; INTESTINE RESECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENSTRUATION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OVULATION INDUCTION; PAIN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; STAGING; ULTRASOUND; URETER REIMPLANTATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PELVIC PAIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84877773008     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: 1473656X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0b013e32836091da     Document Type: Review

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