Empty follicle syndrome in two sisters with three cycles: Case report

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1864-1867

  Önalan, Gögsen ^a   Pabuçcu, Recai ^b   Önalan, Reside ^c   Ceylaner, Serdar ^c   Selam, Belgin ^a  

^a Centrum Clinic   (Turkey)

^b GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^c Dept of Prenatal Diagn/Genetics ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cyclic AMP; Empty follicle syndrome; ICSI; IVF

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; TRIPTORELIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EMPTY FOLLICLE SYNDROME; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OOCYTE; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; SIBLING;

FALLOPIA;

EID: 0042262627     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deg371     Document Type: Article

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