Human zona pellucida micromanipulation and monozygotic twinning frequency after IVF

Human Reproduction

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 890-895

  Scott Sills, E ^a,c   Moomjy, Maureen ^a   Zaninovic, Nikica ^b   Veeck, Lucinda L ^b   McGee, Monnie ^a   Palermo, Gianpiero D ^b   Rosemvaks, Zev ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Georgia Reproductive Specialists LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted hatching; In vitro fertilization; Mono zygotic; Twinning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; TWIN ZYGOSITY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0034068366     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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