Pregnancy and birth after transfer of embryos that developed from single-nucleated zygotes obtained by injection of round spermatids into oocytes

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-70

  Barak, Yona ^b   Kogosowski, Abraham ^b   Goldman, Shlomit ^b   Soffer, Yigal ^c   Gonen, Yael ^b   Tesarik, Jan ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D EYLAU   (France)

^b Institute of Medical Genetics   (Israel)

^c ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Elongated spermatids; Pronuclear development; Round spermatids; Single nucleated zygotes; Spermatid conception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATID; ZYGOTE;

ADULT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERMATIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0032124832     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00106-X     Document Type: Article

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