Computer-controlled, multilevel, morphometric analysis of blastomere size as biomarket of fragmentation and multinuclearity in human embryos

Human Reproduction

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 288-293

  Hnida, Christina ^a   Engenheiro, Elisabete ^a   Ziebe, Søren ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blastomere size; Computer controlled morphometric analysis; Embryo fragmentation; Embryo quality; Multinuclearity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTINUCLEAR CELL;

EID: 1242273795     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deh070     Document Type: Article

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