Cryopreservation of embryos, blastocysts, and pregnancy rates of blastocysts derived from frozen-thawed embryos and frozen-thawed blastocysts

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 579-582

  Pantos, Kostas ^a,b   Stefanidis, Konstantinos ^a   Pappas, Kostas ^b   Kokkinopoulos, Padelis ^c   Petroutsou, Konstantina ^a,b   Kokkali, Georgia ^a,b   Stavrou, Dimitris ^a,b   Tzigounis, Vasilios ^d  

^a Centre for Human Reproduction   (Greece)

^b MITERA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c Argos General Hospital   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Cryopreservation; Embryos; Implantation rate; Pregnancy rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NIDATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THAWING;

BLASTOCYST; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 0035682362     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013138703680     Document Type: Article

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