Surgical treatment for tubal disease in women due to undergo in vitro fertilisation

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2020, Issue 10, 2020, Pages

  Melo, Pedro ^a   Georgiou, Ektoras X ^a   Johnson, Neil ^b   van Voorst, Sabine F ^c   Strandell, Annika ^d   Mol, Ben Willem J ^e   Becker, Christian ^f   Granne, Ingrid E ^f  

^a BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION; BIRTH RATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO NUMBER; FERTILITY PARAMETERS; HUMAN; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SALPINGECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVE BIRTH; META ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OOCYTE NUMBER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; REVIEW; SALPINGECTOMY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSVAGINAL ASPIRATION OF HYDROSALPINGEAL FLUID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE; UTERINE TUBE OCCLUSION; UTERINE TUBE SURGERY; FALLOPIAN TUBE; FEMALE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); UTERINE TUBE STERILIZATION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SALPINGECTOMY; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; STERILIZATION, TUBAL;

EID: 85094595127     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002125.pub4     Document Type: Review

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