Slightly lower incidence of ectopic pregnancies in frozen embryo transfer cycles versus fresh in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles: A retrospective cohort study

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 162-165

  Decleer, Wim ^a   Osmanagaoglu, Kaan ^a   Meganck, Geertrui ^b   Devroey, Paul ^a  

^a Jan Palfijn Hospital   (Belgium)

^b OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ectopic pregnancy; frozen thawed cycle; IVF; relative risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE TUBE PREGNANCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891558248     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.10.002     Document Type: Article

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