Treating patients with "thin" endometrium-an ongoing challenge

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 409-414

  Lebovitz, Oshrit ^a,b   Orvieto, Raoul ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

"thin" endometrium; Endometrial receptivity; Pregnancy; Treatment.

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ARGININE; ESTROGEN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 11; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; PENTOXIFYLLINE; SILDENAFIL; FERTILITY PROMOTING AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIAL DISEASE; ENDOMETRIAL RECEPTIVITY; ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; LUTEAL PHASE; NIDATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIN ENDOMETRIUM; DRUG EFFECTS; ENDOMETRIUM; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; UTERINE DISEASES; VASCULARIZATION;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; UTERINE DISEASES; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 84901269368     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: 14730766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09513590.2014.906571     Document Type: Article

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