Parameters predicting the implantation rate of thawed IVF/ICSI embryos: A retrospective study

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 70-76

  Gabrielsen, Anette ^a   Fedder, J ^b   Agerholm, I ^b  

^a Ciconia Fertility Clinic   (Denmark)

^b HORSENS REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Assisted hatching; Blastomere survival; Cleavage rate; Cryopreserved thawed embryos; Resumption of mitosis

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITOSIS; NIDATION; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THAWING; TIME;

EID: 30944453681     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60983-2     Document Type: Article

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