Influences on endometrial development during intrauterine insemination: Clinical experience of 2,929 patients with unexplained infertility

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wolff, Erin Foran ^a,b   Vahidi, Nima ^a   Alford, Connie ^c   Richter, Kevin ^b   Widra, Eric ^b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b Shady Grove Fertility Reproductive Science Center   (United States)

^c South Florida Institute for Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

assisted reproductive technologies; Endometrium; intrauterine insemination

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

EID: 84879684998     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.03.023     Document Type: Article

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