The limited importance of pronuclear scoring of human zygotes

Human Reproduction

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1599-1604

  James, Aidita N ^a   Hennessy, Sasha ^a   Reggio, Brett ^a   Wiemer, Klaus ^a,b   Larsen, Frederick ^a   Cohen, Jacques ^a,c  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Northwest Center for Reproductive Sciences   (United States)

^c Typho Galileo Research Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo; Live birth; Pronuclear morphology scores; Z score; Zygote

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CHILDBIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCIDENCE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; ZYGOTE;

EID: 33749018518     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/del013     Document Type: Article

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