Embryo morphology or cleavage stage: How to select the best embryos for transfer after in-vitro fertilization

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1545-1549

  Ziebe, S ^a   Petersen, K ^b   Lindenberg, S ^c   Andersen, A G ^a   Gabrielsen, A ^b   Andersen, A Nyboe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Ciconia Fertility Clinic   (Denmark)

^c GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cleavage; Embryo selection; Fragmentation; Quality score

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; NIDATION; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0030875364     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.7.1545     Document Type: Article

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