Implantation, clinical pregnancy and miscarriage rates after introduction of ultrasound-guided embryo transfer

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 88-93

  Ali, C Rubina ^a,c   Khashan, A S ^b   Horne, G ^a   Fitzgerald, C T ^a   Nardo, L G ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical pregnancy; Embryo transfer; Implantation; IVF; Miscarriage; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUTEAL PHASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVULATION INDUCTION; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THAWING; ULTRASOUND GUIDED EMBRYO TRANSFER; VAGINA PESSARY;

EID: 48249144794     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60298-2     Document Type: Article

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