Early cleavage of human embryos to the two-cell stage after intracytoplasmic sperm injection as an indicator of embryo viability

Human Reproduction

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 182-187

  Sakkas, Denny ^a   Shoukir, Youssef ^a   Chardonnens, Didier ^a   Bianchi, Patrizia Grace ^a   Campana, Aldo ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Early cleavage; Embryo quality; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Viability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MORPHOLOGY; PREGNANCY RATE;

EID: 0031884706     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/13.1.182     Document Type: Article

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