Successful pregnancy following transfer of embryos from oocytes with abnormal zona pellucida and cytoplasm morphology

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 620-623

  Esfandiari, Navid ^a   Ryan, Edward A J ^a,b   Gotlieb, Lynda ^a   Casper, Robert F ^a  

^a Toronto Centre for Advanced Reproductive Technology   (Canada)

^b St Joseph Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embryo quality; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Oocyte morphology; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LETROZOLE; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TAMOXIFEN CITRATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CASE REPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; CESAREAN SECTION; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; NULLIPARA; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 28244490255     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61171-6     Document Type: Article

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