Responsible IVF treatment in New Zealand is the preferential transfer of a single embryo

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 1212, 2005, Pages

  Murray, Andrew ^a,b   Hutton, John ^a,b   Peek, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Fertility Associates Ltd   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EUROPE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEW ZEALAND; OOCYTE DONATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TWIN PREGNANCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE;

ADULT; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; NEW ZEALAND; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE;

EID: 21844454762     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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