Ultrasonographic-guided embryo transfer does not enhance pregnancy rates compared with embryo transfer based on previous uterine length measurement

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 867-872

  Lambers, Marieke J ^a   Dogan, Erbil ^b   Kostelijk, Hanna ^a   Lens, Jan Willem ^a   Schats, Roel ^a   Hompes, Peter G A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

embryo transfer; In vitro fertilization; ultrasonographic guidance

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; NIDATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS;

ADULT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTERUS;

EID: 33749264590     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.03.042     Document Type: Article

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