A review of ten years experience of ICSI

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-28

  Devroey, P ^a   Van Steirteghem, A ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ICSI; IVF; Male factor infertility; Preimplantation genetic diagnosis; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EJACULATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FROZEN SECTION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE INFERTILITY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPERM; SPERM DONOR; TESTIS; THAWING; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 1342263626     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmh004     Document Type: Review

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