Statistical analysis of factors affecting fertilization rates and clinical outcome associated with intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 355-360

  Shen, Shehua ^a   Khabani, Amin ^a,b   Klein, Nancy ^a,b   Battaglia, David ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Clinical pregnancy; Embryo quality; Fertilization rates; ICSI; ICSI operator; ICSI technique; Number of embryos transferred; Serum estradiol

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OOCYTE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0037304606     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04675-7     Document Type: Article

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