Comparison between ultrasound-guided embryo transfer and tubal embryo transfer after intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Middle East Fertility Society Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 223-228

  Sasy, M ^a   Abdel Fattah, A ^a   Abozaid, T ^a   Abdo, G ^a   Salem, W ^a   Ashraf, M ^a   Khan, I ^a   Abuzeid, Mostafa I ^a,b,c  

^a IVF Michigan   (United States)

^b HURLEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal ultrasound; Embryo transfer

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ARTICLE; CATHETER; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFERTILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; UTERINE TUBE;

EID: 0347601958     PISSN: 11105690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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