In vitro fertilization with single blastocyst-stage versus single cleavage-stage embryos

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1139-1146

  Papanikolaou, Evangelos G ^a   Camus, Michel ^a   Kolibianakis, Efstratios M ^a   Van Landuyt, Lisbet ^a   Van Steirteghem, Andre ^a   Devroey, Paul ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GANIRELIX; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33644966852     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa053524     Document Type: Article

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