Infertility: Ultrasonic monitoring during replacement of frozen/thawed embryos in natural and hormone replacement cycles

Human Reproduction

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 2068-2074

  Al shawaf, Talha ^a   Yang, Dunsong ^a   Al magid, Yaqub ^a   Seaton, Angela ^a   Iketubosin, Faye ^a   Craft, Ian ^a  

^a London Fertility Centre ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frozen embryo replacement; Hormone replacement cycle; Natural cycle; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL VALERATE; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; AGE; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; NIDATION; OVARY FOLLICLE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SCHEDULING; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0027731565     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a137983     Document Type: Article

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