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Results of 2500 office-based diagnostic hysteroscopies before IVF

Received 11 June 2009 ,Revised 28 July 2009 ,Accepted 2 December 2009.

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 Dr Rana Karayalçın obtained her medical degree in 1987 at Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. She completed her obstetrics and gynecology residency in Zekai Tahir Burak Women’s Education and Research Hospital between 1991 and 1996 and has been working as a staff surgeon since 1998 in the same hospital. She has also worked at Queen Elisabeth Women’s Hospital, New York University Cornell Medical Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Gynecology Clinic and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Cochin. Her areas of interest are IVF and advanced laparoscopic surgery. She has been training residents and performing courses in operative hysteroscopy and laparoscopy since 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.12.030

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