Optimal treatment for poor responders to ovarian stimulation: Does in vitro insemination offer any advantages to intrauterine insemination?

Human Fertility

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-18

  Wood, Simon ^a   Rahim, Razrim ^a   Searle, Tom ^a   Sajjad, Yasmin ^a   Troup, Stephen ^a   Lewis Jones, Iwan ^a   Kingsland, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; FOLLITROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038417011     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1464770312331368923     Document Type: Article

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