Outcome of 518 salvage oocyte-cryopreservation cycles performed as a routine procedure in an in vitro fertilization program

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1423-1427

  La Sala, Giovanni B ^a   Nicoli, Alessia ^a   Villani, Maria T ^a   Pescarini, Michela ^a   Gallinelli, Andrea ^a   Blickstein, Isaac ^b,c  

^a S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction; ICSI; IVF; oocyte cryopreservation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROMANIPULATION; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL; THAWING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CELL SURVIVAL; COHORT STUDIES; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; ITALY; LIVE BIRTH; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750172263     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.04.031     Document Type: Article

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