Is there still an important role for tubal transfer procedures?

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1815-1818

  Tournaye, Herman ^a   Camus, Michel ^a   Ubaldi, Filippo ^a   Clasen, Koen ^a   Van Steirteghem, André ^a   Devroey, Paul ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER; HUMAN; PREGNANCY RATE; SHORT SURVEY; UTERINE TUBE; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW;

EMBRYO TRANSFER; EVALUATION STUDIES; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; ZYGOTE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER;

EID: 0030227784     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019493     Document Type: Short Survey

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