What is the preferred method for timing natural cycle frozen-thawed embryo transfer?

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 66-71

  Weissman, Ariel ^a   Levin, Dan ^a   Ravhon, Amir ^a   Eran, Horowitz ^a   Golan, Avraham ^a   Levran, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Frozen thawed embryo transfer; IVF; Monitoring; Natural cycle; Ovulation

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVULATION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 68149169846     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60048-X     Document Type: Article

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