Blastocyst quality affects the success of blastocyst-stage embryo transfer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 282-287

  Balaban, Basak ^a   Urman, Bulent ^a   Sertac, Aycan ^a   Alatas, Cengiz ^a   Aksoy, Senai ^a   Mercan, Ramazan ^a  

^a AMERICAN HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Implantation; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0034254286     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(00)00645-2     Document Type: Article

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