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. 1997 Feb;14(2):128–130. doi: 10.1007/BF02765783

Application of assisted hatching for 2-Day-old, frozen-thawed embryo transfer in a poor-prognosis population

Jun Tao 1,, Robert Tamis 1
PMCID: PMC3454822  PMID: 9048245

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