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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons exposure and early miscarriage in women undergoing in vitro fertilization-embryo

Pei Li1,2, Rui Hua3, Keyang Li3

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environment and Resources, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.

Human Fertility (Cambridge, England)
|June 29, 2018
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Keywords:
IVF-ETPAHearly pregnancy loss

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