Day 4 versus day 3 embryo transfer: a prospective study of clinical outcomes

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 573-577

  Pantos, Konstantinos ^a   Makrakis, Evangelos ^a   Chronopoulou, Margaret ^a   Biba, Maria ^a   Perdikaris, Anastasios ^a   Dafereras, Alex ^a  

^a Center for Human Reproduction   (Greece)

Author keywords

assisted reproductive technologies; day 3 embryo transfer; Day 4 embryo transfer; in vitro fertilization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY 3 EMBRYO TRANSFER; DAY 4 EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GREECE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40249091477     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.03.056     Document Type: Article

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