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Patient Selection for Assisted Procreation

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Abstract

Infertility is still difficult to define -

  • It is a time-related phenomenon

  • The indices used in diagnostic work differ in different places

  • there is no agreement on the cut-off points for key indices

  • the significance of some putative causes of infertility is not certain

  • more than one case of infertility can coexist in a couple

  • there is good evidence that all causes of infertility are not yet known.

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  1. III Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Milano, Via M. Melloni 52, 20129, Milano, Italy

    PierGiorgio Crosignani

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Shlomo Mashiach M.D. Zion Ben-Rafael M.D. Neri Laufer M.D. Joseph G. Schenker M.D.

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Crosignani, P. (1990). Patient Selection for Assisted Procreation. In: Mashiach, S., Ben-Rafael, Z., Laufer, N., Schenker, J.G. (eds) Advances in Assisted Reproductive Technologies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0645-0_25

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