Pregnancies after transfer of ultrarapidly frozen human embryos

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 625-628

  Lai, Andrew C H ^a,b   Lin, Balance P H ^b   Chang, Chih C ^b   Tsai, Horng D ^b   Hwang, Vincent W S ^b   Lo, Hui Y ^b  

^a Anderson Hospital   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

dimethyl sulfoxide; human embryo; in vitro fertilization; pregnancy; ultrarapid freezing method

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; PROGESTERONE; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL CULTURE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029794006     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02069640     Document Type: Article

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