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Hysteroscopy Before Oocytes Retrieval

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The introduction of in vitro fertilization in the late 1970s resulted in the continuous development of reproductive medicine by innovative techniques to solve the various causes of couples’ sterility.

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Acknowledgement

The authors of this chapter thanks to Domenico Silletti, MD, for hysteroscopic images made available by him, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecolgy, Santa Maria Hospital, GVM Care and Research, Bari, Italy.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ASM Matera, Bari, Italy

    Giuseppe Trojano

  2. UOSD Gynecologic Oncology—Ente Ecclesiastico Ospedale Generale Regionale “F. Miulli”, Bari, Italy

    Vita Caroli Casavola

  3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, GVM Care and Research Santa Maria Hospital, Bari, Italy

    Antonio Malvasi

  4. Laboratory of Human Physiology, Phystech BioMed School, Faculty of Biological and Medical Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Dolgoprudny, Russia

    Antonio Malvasi

  5. Hille Yaffe Medical Center Israel, Hadera, Israel

    Sergio Haimovich

  6. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, USL 1 Umbria, Alta Valle del Tevere Hospital, Città di Castello, PG, Italy

    Alessandro Favilli

  7. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, AOU Policlinico University Hospital, Bari, Italy

    Ettore Cicinelli

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Trojano, G., Caroli Casavola, V., Malvasi, A., Haimovich, S., Favilli, A., Cicinelli, E. (2020). Hysteroscopy Before Oocytes Retrieval. In: Malvasi, A., Baldini, D. (eds) Pick Up and Oocyte Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28741-2_6

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