Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 2 , Pages 377-382 , February 2009

In vitro fertilization cycle outcome after coasting in gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist versus GnRH antagonist protocols

Received 3 September 2007 ,Revised 28 November 2007 ,Accepted 28 November 2007.

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 The first two authors contributed equally to this study, and both are first authors.

PII: S0015-0282(07)04150-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.11.086

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 2 , Pages 377-382 , February 2009

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