A new assisted hatching technique using a piezo-micromanipulator

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 784-788

  Nakayama, Takahiro ^a   Fujiwara, Hiroshi ^a   Tastumi, Keiji ^a   Fujita, Kazuyuki ^a   Higuchi, Toshihiro ^a   Mori, Takahide ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assisted hatching; Piezo micromanipulator; Zona pellucida

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HATCHING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MICROMANIPULATION; PREGNANCY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0031958395     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00017-X     Document Type: Article

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