Cryo-thawed embryo transfer: natural versus artificial cycle. A non-inferiority trial.(ANTARCTICA trial)

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Groenewoud, Eva R ^a   Macklon, Nick S ^b   Cohlen, Ben J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c ISALA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYO-THAWED EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THAWING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LIVE BIRTH; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTINS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865646688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-12-27     Document Type: Article

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