The effect of assisted hatching on pregnancy rates after frozen embryo transfer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 254-257

  Check, J H ^a   Hoover, L ^a   Nazari, A ^a   O'Shaughnessy, A ^a   Summers, D ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

assisted hatching; frozen embryos; Human IVF; implantation; media; micromanipulation; transfers

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HATCHING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWINS;

EID: 0030065172     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0015-0282(16)58080-7     Document Type: Article

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