Blastocyst transfer in day-5 embryo transfer depends primarily on the number of oocytes retrieved and not on age

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 78-83

  Scholtes, Michael C W ^a   Zeilmaker, Gerard H ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Blastulation; Consecutive cycles; Embryo development; Embryo transfer; Female age; Implantation rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGING; BLASTOCYST; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031882558     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)00450-0     Document Type: Article

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