Fertility and Sterility
Volume 88, Issue 6 , Pages 1689-1691 , December 2007

Location of semen collection and time interval from collection to use for intrauterine insemination

  • Gyun Jee Song, Ph.D.
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  • Rita Herko, B.S.
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  • Vivian Lewis, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Vivian Lewis, M.D., 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 668, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14642 (FAX: 585-756-5717).

Received 4 October 2006 ,Revised 11 January 2007 ,Accepted 11 January 2007.

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 Conflict of interest: Gyun Jee Song: none; Rita Herko: none; Vivian Lewis: Wyeth Ayerst Research M and Glaxo Smith Kline M.

PII: S0015-0282(07)00206-3

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.01.051

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 88, Issue 6 , Pages 1689-1691 , December 2007