Implantation rates after two, three, or five days of embryo culture

Placenta

Volumn 24, Issue SUPPL. B, 2003, Pages

  de los Santos, M J ^a   Mercader, A ^a   Galan A ^a   Albert, C ^a   Romero, J L ^a   Pellicer, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INFERTILIDAD   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NIDATION; OOCYTE DONATION; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW;

EID: 0142150107     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0143-4004(03)00172-3     Document Type: Article

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