The detection of blood contamination in human follicular fluid

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 212-217

  Levay, Peter F ^a   Huyser, Carin ^a   Fourie, Francois Le R ^a   Rossouw, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

blood contamination; human follicular fluid; spectrophotometry; urine dipsticks; visual inspection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CENTRIFUGATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEPSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0030896773     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02766112     Document Type: Article

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