Miscellaneous risks and complications

Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Quality and Safety

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 247-255

  De Sutter, P ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

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