Oocyte vitrification: Donor “egg banking”

Vitrification in Assisted Reproduction, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 129-136

  Nagy, Zsolt Peter ^a   Cobo, Ana ^b   Chang, Ching Chien ^a  

^a REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b IVI Valencia   (Spain)

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EID: 85054259198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b19316     Document Type: Chapter

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