Assisted hatching

Minerva Ginecologica

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 223-234

  Sallam, H N ^a  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Assisted hatching; Fertilization in vitro; Twins, monozygotic; Zona pellucida

Indexed keywords

BLASTOCYST; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HATCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; META ANALYSIS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OOCYTE; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; META-ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 3242748328     PISSN: 00264784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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