Fertility and Sterility
Volume 88, Issue 2 , Pages 342-349 , August 2007

Improvements achieved in an oocyte donation program over a 10-year period: sequential increase in implantation and pregnancy rates and decrease in high-order multiple pregnancies

Received 28 May 2006 ,Revised 17 November 2006 ,Accepted 27 November 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.11.118

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 88, Issue 2 , Pages 342-349 , August 2007

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