High rates of embryonic loss, yet high incidence of multiple births in human art: Is this paradoxical?

Theriogenology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-96

  Racowsky, C ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo selection techniques; Embryonic loss; Human IVF; Multiple birth rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CONCEPTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; STANDARD; SUPEROVULATION; HISTOLOGY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INCIDENCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0036006885     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(01)00659-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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