Vitrified human day-7 blastocyst transfer: 11 cases

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 689-694

  Hiraoka, Kenichiro ^a   Fuchiwaki, Megumi ^a   Hiraoka, Kaori ^a   Horiuchi, Toshitaka ^b   Okano, Shinichiro ^a   Kinutani, Masayuki ^a   Kinutani, Kazuo ^a  

^a Kinutani Women's Clinic   (Japan)

^b PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HIROSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Cryopreservation; Day 7; Human; Transfer; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN ACETATE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NIDATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANT WOMAN; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 56749146252     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60317-3     Document Type: Article

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