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9 - Ultrasound Monitoring in ART Have We Made Any Progress?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2017

Botros Rizk
Affiliation:
University of South Alabama
Jan Gerris
Affiliation:
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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