Comparison between conventional blind embryo transfer and embryo transfer based on previously measured uterine length

International Journal of Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 249-254

  Saharkhiz, Nasrin ^a   Nikbakht, Roshan ^b   Salehpour, Saghar ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Embryo Transfer; Ultrasound; Uterine

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; CETRORELIX; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION RATE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UROGENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION AND REPRODUCTION; UTERINE LENGTH;

EID: 84908368494     PISSN: 2008076X     EISSN: 20080778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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