Fertility and Sterility
Volume 88, Issue 6 , Pages 1554-1561 , December 2007

The relative contribution of assisted reproductive technologies and ovulation induction to multiple births in the United States 5 years after the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology/American Society for Reproductive Medicine recommendation to limit the number of embryos transferred

  • Richard P. Dickey, M.D., Ph.D.

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Richard P. Dickey, M.D., Ph.D., The Fertility Institute of New Orleans, 800 N. Causeway Boulevard., Suite 2C, Mandeville, Louisiana, 70448 (FAX: 985-892-9245).

Received 29 December 2005 ,Revised 22 January 2007 ,Accepted 22 January 2007.

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PII: S0015-0282(07)00246-4

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.01.112

Fertility and Sterility
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