Is chromosome analysis mandatory in the initial investigation of normovulatory women seeking infertility treatment?

Human Reproduction

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2899-2903

  Papanikolaou, Evangelos G ^a   Vernaeve, V ^a   Kolibianakis, E ^a   Van Assche, E ^b   Bonduelle, M ^b   Liebaers, I ^b   Van Steirteghem, A ^a   Devroey, P ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chromosome abnormalities; ICSI; Infertility; IVF; Karyotype; Normovulatory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME HIGH RESOLUTION BANDING ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KARYOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANDATORY TESTING; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METAPHASE; MOSAICISM; PARACENTRIC CHROMOSOME INVERSION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; STRUCTURAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION;

EID: 27144475745     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dei151     Document Type: Article

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