Ultrasound-guided miduterine cavity embryo transfer is associated with a decreased incidence of retained embryos in the transfer catheter

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1510-1512

  Silberstein, Tali ^a   Trimarchi, James R ^a   Shackelton, Rebecca ^a   Weitzen, Sherry ^a   Frankfurter, David ^b   Plosker, Shayne ^a  

^a WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; NIDATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASOUND; UTERUS CAVITY;

CATHETERIZATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERUS;

EID: 27644544707     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.06.023     Document Type: Article

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