Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 2 , Pages 355-359 , 15 January 2010

Transfer of two versus three embryos in women less than 40 years old undergoing frozen transfer cycles

An abstract was presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, New Orleans, LA, October 21–25, 2006.

Received 27 January 2008 ,Revised 9 December 2008 ,Accepted 14 January 2009.

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 I.B. has nothing to declare. L.L.E. has nothing to declare. C.A.B. has nothing to declare. D.W.S. has nothing to declare. J.C.N. has nothing to declare. D.B.M. has nothing to declare.

PII: S0015-0282(09)00149-6

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.01.101

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 2 , Pages 355-359 , 15 January 2010

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