No advantage of laser-assisted over conventional intracytoplasmic sperm injection: A randomized controlled trial [NCT00114725]

Journal of Experimental and Clinical Assisted Reproduction

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Richter, Kevin S ^a   Davis, Alana ^a   Carter, Jennifer ^a   Greenhouse, Stephen J ^a   Mottla, Gilbert L ^a   Tucker, Michael J ^a  

^a Shady Grove Fertility Reproductive Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LASER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; STUDENT T TEST; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 33747384278     PISSN: 17431050     EISSN: 17431050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-1050-3-5     Document Type: Article

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