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The Quebec Experience—One Plus One Equals Two at Once: Presenting Cumulative Pregnancy Rates as the Ideal Outcome in Elective SET Programmes

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  1. Département d’obstétrique-gynécologie, service de médecine et biologie de la reproduction, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, H2L 4S8

    Maria P. Vélez, Isaac-Jacques Kadoch & Francois Bissonnette

  2. CLINIQUE OVO, Montreal, QC, Canada, H4P 2S4

    Isaac-Jacques Kadoch, Simon J. Phillips & Francois Bissonnette

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Vélez, M.P., Kadoch, IJ., Phillips, S.J., Bissonnette, F. (2015). The Quebec Experience—One Plus One Equals Two at Once: Presenting Cumulative Pregnancy Rates as the Ideal Outcome in Elective SET Programmes. In: Sills, E. (eds) Screening the Single Euploid Embryo. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16892-0_22

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