The predictive value of pronuclear morphology screening on embryo development and pregnancy outcome in ART cycles

Middle East Fertility Society Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 44-51

  Khalili, Mohammad Ali ^a   Mardanian, Farahnaz ^b   Razavi, Vida ^b   Esfandiari, Navid ^c  

^a SHAHID SADOUGHI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Cleaving embryo; ICSI; IVF; Pronuclear morphology; Zygote scoring

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY RATE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZYGOTE;

EID: 47749115742     PISSN: 11105690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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