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Chapter 37 - The ABCs of Quality Management in IVF

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 August 2018

By
Oksana Stidston
Edited by
Ying Cheong ,
Togas Tulandi  and
Tin-Chiu Li
Ying Cheong
Affiliation:
University of Southampton
Togas Tulandi
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
Tin-Chiu Li
Affiliation:
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Practical Problems in Assisted Conception , pp. 174 - 180
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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