Comparison of transmyometrial and transcervical embryo transfer in patients with previously failed in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles and/or cervical stenosis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1073-1076

  Groutz, Asnat ^a   Azem, Foad ^a   Lessing, Joseph B ^a   Yovel, Israel ^a   Wolf, Yoram ^a   Amit, Ami ^a  

^a Serlin Maternity Hospital   (Israel)

Author keywords

ET; IVF; Transcervical; Transmyometrial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STENOSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT FAILURE; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE; VAGINA;

EID: 0342601940     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)81441-0     Document Type: Article

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