Fertility and Sterility
Volume 82, Issue 4 , Pages 841-846 , October 2004

Reducing the dose of human chorionic gonadotropin in high responders does not affect the outcomes of in vitro fertilization

Presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Seattle, Washington, October 12–17, 2002.

Received 12 November 2003 ,Revised 18 March 2004 ,Accepted 18 March 2004.

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PII: S0015-0282(04)02223-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.03.055

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 82, Issue 4 , Pages 841-846 , October 2004

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