Birth following vitrification of a small number of human oocytes

Human Reproduction

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3077-3079

  Kuleshova, Lilia ^a   Gianaroli, Luca ^b   Magli, Cristina ^b   Ferraretti, Anna ^b   Trounson, Alan ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SISMER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Birth after freezing; Cryopreservation; Oocyte; Oocyte cryosurvival; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE GLYCOL; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH; CASE REPORT; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OOCYTE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0032715349     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/14.12.3077     Document Type: Article

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