Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 5 , Pages 1903-1907 , October 2010

Storage of human oocytes in the vapor phase of nitrogen

Preliminary results were presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, October 13–17, 2007, Washington, DC.

Received 17 July 2009 ,Revised 26 October 2009 ,Accepted 26 October 2009.

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 A.C. has nothing to disclose. J.Ll.R. has nothing to disclose. S.P. has nothing to disclose. M.J.d.l.S. has nothing to disclose. M.M. has nothing to disclose. J.R. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)03962-4

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.10.042

Fertility and Sterility
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