Day 3 and day 5 morphological predictors of embryo viability

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 323-331

  Racowsky, Catherine ^a   Combelles, Catherine M H ^a   Nureddin, Aida ^a   Pan, Yuying ^a   Finn, Alison ^a   Miles, Lyndon ^a   Gale, Sarah ^a   O'Leary, Thomas ^a   Jackson, Katherine V ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Day 3; Day 5; Embryo viability; Homogenous transfers; Human embyro morphology

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREDICTION;

EID: 0037963580     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61852-4     Document Type: Article

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