Blastocyst score affects implantation and pregnancy outcome: Towards a single blastocyst transfer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1155-1158

  Gardner, David K ^a   Lane, Michelle ^a   Stevens, John ^a   Schlenker, Terry ^a   Schoolcraft, William B ^a  

^a National Foundation for Fertility Research   (United States)

Author keywords

ART; Embryo culture; Implantation; IVF; Viability

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LUTEAL PHASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NIDATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TWINS;

EID: 0034045087     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(00)00518-5     Document Type: Article

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