Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 2 , Pages 496-501 , July 2010

In vitro maturation for patients with repeated in vitro fertilization failure due to “oocyte maturation abnormalities”

Received 10 December 2008 ,Revised 27 February 2009 ,Accepted 9 March 2009.

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 A.H. has nothing to disclose. E.M. has nothing to disclose. M.B. has nothing to disclose. R.M. has nothing to disclose. J.D. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)00605-0

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.03.040

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 2 , Pages 496-501 , July 2010

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