Progesterone elevation and probability of pregnancy after IVF: Facts and fiction

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 538-

  Venetis, C A ^a   Kolibianakis, E M ^a   Tarlatzis, B C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; PROGESTERONE;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VALIDITY;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGESTERONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 49649121555     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmn027     Document Type: Letter

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