Clinical application of a new assisted hatching method using a piezo- micromanipulator for morphologically low-quality embryos in poor-prognosis infertile patients

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1014-1018

  Nakayama, Takahiro ^a   Fujiwara, Hiroshi ^a   Yamada, Shigetoshi ^a   Tastumi, Keiji ^a   Honda, Testuro ^a   Fujii, Shingo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assisted hatching; Embryo quality; Implantation failure; Piezo micromanipulator; Pregnancy rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; HATCHING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROMANIPULATOR; NIDATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ADULT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MICROMANIPULATION; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033151697     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00131-4     Document Type: Article

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