An 'epidemic' of severe OHSS: A price we have to pay?

Human Reproduction

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2930-2931

  Graf, Michael A ^a   Fischer, Robert ^b  

^a IVF Unit   (Germany)

^b Fertility Center Hamburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OVARY DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; NOTE; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OVARIAN HYPERSTIMULATION SYNDROME; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0033251804     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/14.12.2930     Document Type: Short Survey

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