Zygote intrafallopian transfer may improve pregnancy rate in patients with repeated failure of implantation

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 26-30

  Levran, David ^a   Mashiach, Shlomo ^b   Dor, Joshua ^b   Levron, Jacob ^b   Farhi, Jacob ^b  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Implantation failure; IVF; ZIFT

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; TRIPTORELIN; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0031882377     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)00452-4     Document Type: Article

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