Surgery for endometriosis-associated infertility: a pragmatic approach
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Surgery for endometriosis-associated infertility: a pragmatic approach.
Laparoscopic treatment for endometriosis-associated infertility is gaining widespread popularity supported mostly by uncontrolled studies, but the purported benefit of surgery may be overvalued. We have therefore analysed the best available evidence with the aim of defining an approximate estimate of the effect size of conservative surgery for infertile women with endometriosis in various clini...
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عنوان ژورنال: Human Reproduction
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0268-1161,1460-2350
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/den379