Second cycle: to hatch or not to hatch?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 718-720

  Dayal, Molina B ^a   Dubey, Anil ^a   Frankfurter, David ^a   Peak, Douglas ^a   Gindoff, Paul R ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GANIRELIX; LEUPRORELIN; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HATCHING; HORMONE INHIBITION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LIVE BIRTH; LUTEAL PHASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 34548456766     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.11.147     Document Type: Article

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