Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 6 , Pages 2172-2176 , November 2010

Reliability of automated volumetric measurement of multiple growing follicles in controlled ovarian hyperstimulation

The present article was selected for oral presentation at the 25th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 28 to July 1, 2009.

Received 24 August 2009 ,Revised 21 January 2010 ,Accepted 22 January 2010.

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 F.L. has nothing to disclose. E.A. has nothing to disclose. S.S. has nothing to disclose. M.G. has nothing to disclose. R. Frydman has nothing to disclose. R. Fanchin has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(10)00137-8

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.01.062

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 6 , Pages 2172-2176 , November 2010

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