Hatching: How to select the clinical indications

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1034, Issue , 2004, Pages 145-151

  Germond, Marc ^a   Primi, Marie Pierre ^a   Senn, Alfred ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assisted hatching; Blastocyst; Embryo; Human; Immunosuppression; Pregnancy rate; Zona pellucida

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ASSISTED HATCHING; BLASTOCYST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; FERTILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFERTILITY THERAPY; META ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NIDATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PREGNANCY RATE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 14944371709     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1335.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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