Ectopic pregnancy rates with frozen compared with fresh blastocyst transfer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 629-631

  Jun, Sunny H ^a   Milki, Amin A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; ectopic pregnancy; frozen transfer; in vitro fertilization

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMANS; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC;

EID: 34548436889     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.12.005     Document Type: Article

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