Pregnancy rates are higher with intracytoplasmic morphologically selected sperm injection than with conventional intracytoplasmic injection

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1413-1419

  Bartoov, Benjamin ^a   Berkovitz, Arie ^b   Eltes, Fina ^a   Kogosovsky, Avraham ^c   Yagoda, Arie ^d   Lederman, Hanna ^a   Artzi, Shira ^c   Gross, Moshe ^d   Barak, Yona ^c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Institute of Medical Genetics   (Israel)

^d Women's Health Centre   (Israel)

Author keywords

IVF ICSI; Male fertility; Pregnancy rate; Sperm morphological selection; Sperm nucleus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROINJECTION; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0347480530     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.05.016     Document Type: Article

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