Outcome for donors and recipients in two egg-sharing policies

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-73

  Kolibianakis, Efstratios M ^a   Tournaye, Herman ^a   Osmanagaoglu, Kaan ^a   Camus, Michel ^a   Van Waesberghe, Linda ^a   Van Steirteghem, Andre ^a   Devroey, Paul ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Delivery rate; Donor; Egg donation; Egg sharing; Recipient

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DONOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DONATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; CELL COUNT; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTE DONATION; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037230028     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04406-0     Document Type: Article

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