Prospective randomized comparison of Wallace and Labotect embryo transfer catheters

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 471-476

  Ata, Baris ^a,b   Isiklar, Aycan ^a   Balaban, Basak ^a   Urman, Bulent ^a,c  

^a AMERICAN HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Soranus IVF Clinic   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Catheter; Embryo transfer; Labotect; Pregnancy rate; Randomized controlled study; Wallace

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UTERINE CERVIX;

EID: 34247150193     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60895-4     Document Type: Article

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