Endometrial biopsy: a test whose time has come

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Jairo E Garcia. Fertil Steril. 2004 Nov.

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. 2004 Nov;82(5):1293-4; discussion 1299-302.

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.05.081.

¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA. jgarcia@jhmi.edu

Abstract

The endometrial biopsy is still a precise screening tool for the evaluation of the infertile couple.

Histological dating of timed endometrial biopsy tissue is not related to fertility status.
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