Monozygotic pregnancies from transfers of zona-free blastocysts

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 483-485

  Frankfurter, David ^a,d   Trimarchi, James ^b   Hackett, Rick ^b   Meng, Li ^c   Keefe, David ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL TRANSFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

BLASTOCYST; COHORT STUDIES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; ZYGOTE;

EID: 4143090343     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.02.105     Document Type: Article

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