Impact of embryo replacement depth on in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer outcomes

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1341-1345

  Tiras, Bulent ^a,b   Polat, Mehtap ^a   Korucuoglu, Umit ^b   Zeyneloglu, Hulusi Bulent ^c   Yarali, Hakan ^d  

^a Anatolia IVF Center   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^c BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

depth; Embryo transfer; IVF outcome; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; OOCYTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); DEVICES; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; MALE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; UTERUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956186214     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.07.1666     Document Type: Article

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