Incidence of monozygotic twinning with blastocyst transfer compared to cleavage-stage transfer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 503-506

  Milki, Amin A ^a   Jun, Sunny H ^a   Hinckley, Mary D ^a   Behr, Barry ^a   Giudice, Linda C ^a   Westphal, Lynn M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastocyst transfer; Cleavage stage transfer; IVF; Monozygotic twinning; Multiple gestations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NIDATION; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TWIN PREGNANCY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0037335305     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04754-4     Document Type: Article

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