Comparison of pregnancy rates for two embryo-transfer catheters

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 411-416

  Rhodes, Tiffany L ^a   Higdon III, H Lee ^a   Boone, William R ^a  

^a GREENVILLE HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology (ART); catheter; embryo transfer; pregnancy rates

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LUTEAL PHASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PILOT STUDY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; CATHETERIZATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846580620     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.06.030     Document Type: Article

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