Single top quality embryo transfer as a model for prediction of early pregnancy outcome

Human Reproduction

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1476-1479

  De Neubourg, Diane ^a   Gerris, J ^a   Mangelschots, K ^a   Van Royen, E ^a   Vercruyssen, M ^a   Elseviers, M ^b  

^a MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Early pregnancy; Single embryo transfer; Top quality embryo

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ABORTION; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NIDATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY RATE; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

EID: 3042689882     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deh283     Document Type: Article

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