Factors responsible for multiple pregnancies after ovarian stimulation and intrauterine insemination with gonadotropins

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 663-668

  Valbuena, Diana ^a   Simón, Carlos ^a   Romero, Josep L ^a   Remohí, José ^a   Pellicer, Antonio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INFERTILIDAD   (Spain)

Author keywords

artificial insemination; multiple pregnancy; superovulation

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUPEROVULATION;

EID: 0029794125     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02069646     Document Type: Article

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