Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 2 , Pages 351-354 , 15 January 2010

The benefit of human chorionic gonadotropin supplementation throughout the secretory phase of frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles

Received 9 December 2008 ,Revised 25 January 2009 ,Accepted 9 February 2009.

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 A.B.-M. has nothing to disclose. M.A.-D. has nothing to disclose. A.R. has nothing to disclose. E.E. has nothing to disclose. N.L. has nothing to disclose. A.S. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)00370-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.02.027

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 2 , Pages 351-354 , 15 January 2010

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