Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 5 , Pages 1713-1716 , October 2010

Reasons for dropping out from a waiting list for in vitro fertilization

  • Angelique J.C.M. van Dongen, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • GROW, School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Angelique J. C. M. van Dongen, M.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, P.O. Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, the Netherlands (FAX: 0031433874765).
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  • Tamara E.M. Verhagen, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • GROW, School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Máxima Medical Centre, Veldhoven, the Netherlands
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  • John C.M. Dumoulin, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • GROW, School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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  • Jolande A. Land, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • GROW, School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
    • ,
  • Johannes L.H. Evers, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • GROW, School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Received 31 May 2009 ,Revised 16 August 2009 ,Accepted 31 August 2009.

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 A.J.C.M.v.D. has nothing to disclose. T.E.M.V. has nothing to disclose. J.C.M.D. has nothing to disclose. J.A.L. has nothing to disclose. J.L.H.E. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)03620-6

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.08.066

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 5 , Pages 1713-1716 , October 2010

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