Rate of blastocyst development from excess embryos remaining in culture after day 3 embryo transfer

International Journal of Fertility and Women's Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 136-139

  Dayal, Molina B ^a,b   Kovalevsky, George ^c   Patrizio, Pasquale ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Fertility and IVF Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ART; Blastocyst development; Excess embryos; Good prognosis; ICSI; IVF

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; COHORT STUDIES; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 39049190844     PISSN: 1534892X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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