Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 10 , Pages 835-839 , October 2009

Eutopic or Ectopic Pregnancy: A Competition between Signals Derived from the Endometrium and the Fallopian Tube for Blastocyst Implantation

  • Z. Jia-rong

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated First People's Hospital, Shanghai, China
    • ,
  • L. Shuang-di

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated First People's Hospital, Shanghai, China
    • ,
  • W. Xiao-ping

      Affiliations

    • Shanghai International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital, 910 Hengshan Road, Shanghai 200030, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +86 21 63831956.

,Accepted 31 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.07.013

Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 10 , Pages 835-839 , October 2009

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