Zona pellucida thickness and clinical pregnancy outcome following in vitro fertilization

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 258-262

  Sun, Y P ^a   Xu, Y ^a,b   Cao, T ^a   Su, Y C ^a   Guo, Y H ^a  

^a ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HAINAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

In vitro fertilization embryo transfer; Zona pellucida thickness (ZPT); Zona pellucida thickness variation (ZPTV)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; NIDATION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 20344386730     PISSN: 00207292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2005.02.012     Document Type: Article

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