Cervical dilatation has a positive impact on the outcome of IVF in randomly assigned cases having two previous difficult embryo transfers

Human Reproduction

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1791-1795

  Prapas, N ^a,b   Prapas, Y ^a,b   Panagiotidis, Y ^b   Prapa, S ^b   Vanderzwalmen, P ^b,c   Makedos, G ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Iakentro Fertility Center   (Greece)

^c Van Helmont Hospital   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cervical dilatation; Cervical stenosis; Embryo transfer; IVF; Transfer catheter

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TRIPTORELIN; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION;

EID: 4344650278     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deh320     Document Type: Article

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