Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 6 , Pages 1702-1708 , June 2008

Single-blastocyst transfer decreases twin gestation without affecting pregnancy outcome

Received 5 April 2007 ,Revised 24 May 2007 ,Accepted 24 May 2007.

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 Presented orally at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 21–25, 2006.

PII: S0015-0282(07)01203-4

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.05.036

Fertility and Sterility
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