Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 2 , Pages 395-400 , February 2009

Can cumulative pregnancy rates be increased by freezing and thawing single embryos?

  • Marie Prades, Pharm.D.

      Affiliations

    • Reproductive Biology Unit, University Hospital, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Marie Prades, Unité fonctionnelle de Biologie de la Reproduction du Professeur Catherine Poirot, Batiment 85, Avenue de la Nouvelle Pitié, 83 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris cedex 13, France (FAX: 00-33-1-42-17-78-89).
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  • Jean-Louis Golmard, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Statistical Unit, University Hospital, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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  • Danièle Vauthier, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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  • Gilles Lefèbvre, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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  • Catherine Poirot, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Reproductive Biology Unit, University Hospital, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Received 28 June 2007 ,Revised 20 November 2007 ,Accepted 20 November 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.11.074

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 2 , Pages 395-400 , February 2009

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