Relationship between pre-embryo pronuclear morphology (zygote score) and standard day 2 or 3 embryo morphology with regard to assisted reproductive technique outcomes

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 900-909

  Payne, John F ^a   Raburn, Douglas J ^a   Couchman, Grace M ^a   Price, Thomas M ^a   Jamison, Margaret G ^a   Walmer, David K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ART; Assisted reproductive techniques; Embryo morphology; Embryo quality; Fertilization; ICSI; Infertility; IVF; Nucleoli; Pre embryo pronuclear morphology; Pregnancy; Pronuclear grading; Z score; Zygote score

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOMERE; CALCULATION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NIDATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARD; ZYGOTE;

ADULT; BLASTOMERES; EMBRYO; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; ZYGOTE;

EID: 26244448703     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.04.047     Document Type: Article

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