Does the timing of mock embryo transfer affect in vitro fertilization implantation and pregnancy rates?*

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1462-1464

  Katariya, Kathleen O ^a   Bates, G Wright ^a   Robinson, Randal D ^a   Arthur, Nancy J ^a   Propst, Anthony M ^a  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; GANIRELIX; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; UTERUS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 35648931455     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.12.057     Document Type: Article

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