Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 4 , Pages 1308-1313 , September 2010

Factors affecting thawed oocyte viability suggest a customized policy of embryo transfer

Received 20 March 2009 ,Revised 14 May 2009 ,Accepted 21 May 2009.

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 A.P.F. has nothing to disclose. M.L. has nothing to disclose. M.C.M. has nothing to disclose. F.M. has nothing to disclose. S.R. has nothing to disclose. L.G. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)01226-6

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.05.088

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 4 , Pages 1308-1313 , September 2010

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