The treatment of luteinised unruptured follicle syndrome with Chinese medicine

Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn , Issue 102, 2013, Pages 5-19

  Wu, Yuning ^a,b   Leonard, Celine ^c   Denz, Esther ^c   Haeberle, Michael ^c  

^a BEIJING HOSPITAL OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE AFFILIATED TO CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Association of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine   (China)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Anovulation; Chinese medicine; Herbal medicine; Infertility; LUFS; Luteinised unruptured follicle syndrome

Indexed keywords

CHINESE DRUG; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; FOLLITROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ACUPUNCTURE; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYST; DIET; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMOSTASIS; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZED UNRUPTURED FOLLICLE SYNDROME; MOXIBUSTION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVARY HYPERTROPHY; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCRIPTION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; STRESS; UTERUS BLEEDING;

EID: 84885439471     PISSN: 01438042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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21. This indicates the follicle was not well-filled with fluid. A well-developed follicle should be round and have tensile force, making it rupture more easily at ovulation.