The degree of difficulty of embryo transfer is an independent factor for predicting pregnancy

Human Reproduction

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2632-2635

  Tomás, Candido ^a,c,d   Tikkinen, Kimmo ^a   Tuomivaara, Leena ^b   Tapanainen, Juha S ^a   Martikainen, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b FAMILY FEDERATION OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c Fertility Center   (Finland)

^d Fertility Center   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Catheter; Difficulty; Embryo transfer; Logistic regression

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN AGONIST; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CATHETER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION;

EID: 0036798018     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/17.10.2632     Document Type: Article

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