Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 1 , Pages 96-100 , January 2009

The effect of selecting oocytes for insemination and transferring all resultant embryos without selection on outcomes of assisted reproduction

  • Giovanni Battista La Sala, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy
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  • Alessia Nicoli, B.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy
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  • Maria Teresa Villani, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy
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  • Roberta Di Girolamo, B.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy
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  • Francesco Capodanno, B.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy
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  • Isaac Blickstein, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, and the Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

Received 2 June 2007 ,Revised 5 November 2007 ,Accepted 5 November 2007.

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 The authors hereby state that no conflict of interest exists and there was no commercial/financial support.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.11.010

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 1 , Pages 96-100 , January 2009

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