Treatment strategies for women with WHO group II anovulation: Systematic review and network meta-analysis

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 356, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Wang, Rui ^a,b   Kim, Bobae V ^a   Van Wely, Madelon ^c   Johnson, Neil P ^a,d   Costello, Michael F ^e   Zhang, Hanwang ^b   Ng, Ernest Hung Yu ^f   Legro, Richard S ^g   Bhattacharya, Siladitya ^h   Norman, Robert J ^a,i,j   Mol, Ben Willem J ^a,k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^g PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ Fertility SA   (Australia)

^j Interventions and Outcomes   (Australia)

^k SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE CITRATE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LETROZOLE; METFORMIN; PLACEBO; TAMOXIFEN; CLOMIFENE; NITRILE; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTION; DIATHERMY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVE BIRTH; META ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVARIAN DRILLING; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; COMBINATION DRUG THERAPY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; NETWORK META-ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

ANOVULATION; CLOMIPHENE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; METFORMIN; NETWORK META-ANALYSIS; NITRILES; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 85011277647     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j138     Document Type: Article

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