Elective Single Embryo Transfer: Guidelines for Practice British Fertility Society and Association of Clinical Embryologists

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Human Fertility

• Publication date

  2008-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1080/14647270802302629PMID 18766953
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