Oocyte morphology does not correlate with fertilization rate and embryo quality after intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 595-597

  De Sutter, Paul ^a   Dozortsev, Dmitri ^a   Qian, Chen ^a   Dhont, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Oocyte morphology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAPHASE; MICROSCOPY; OOCYTE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0030007913     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/11.3.595     Document Type: Article

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