Treatment of infertility associated with deep endometriosis: Definition of therapeutic balances

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 764-770

  Somigliana, Edgardo ^a   Garcia Velasco, Juan Antonio ^b  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deep endometriosis; IVF; pregnancy; surgery

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEEP ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; PELVIC VESSELS RUPTURE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RUPTURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); COMPLICATION; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PATHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84942564368     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.08.003     Document Type: Review

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