Undocumented embryos: Do not trash them, FISH them

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2502-2506

  Manor, Dorit ^a   Kol, Shahar ^a   Lewit, Nathan ^a   Lightman, Abraham ^a   Stein, Diana ^a   Pillar, Miriam ^a   Itskovitz Eldor, Joseph ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Embryo FISH; Ploidy; Preimplantation diagnosis; Pronuclei; Undocumented embryo

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; PLOIDY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRONUCLEUS;

EID: 0030444733     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019148     Document Type: Article

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