Successful preimplantation genetic diagnosis is related to the number of available cumulus-oocyte complexes

Human Reproduction

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3169-3176

  Vandervorst, M ^a   Liebaers, I ^b   Sermon, K ^b   Staessen, C ^a   De Vos, A ^a   Van de Velde, H ^a   Van Assche, E ^b   Joris, H ^a   Van Steirteghem, A ^a   Devroey, P ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Embryo biopsy; Number of cumulus oocyte complexes; Ovarian stimulation; Preimplantation genetic diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PROGNOSIS; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

EID: 0031753720     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/13.11.3169     Document Type: Article

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