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4 - Minimizing Multiple Pregnancy After Assisted Reproductive Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2017

By
Jan Gerris
Edited by
Botros Rizk  and
Jan Gerris
Botros Rizk
Affiliation:
University of South Alabama
Jan Gerris
Affiliation:
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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Complications and Outcomes of Assisted Reproduction , pp. 33 - 45
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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