Comparison of the offspring sex ratio between fresh and vitrification-thawed blastocyst transfer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1764-1766

  Lin, Pin Yao ^a   Huang, Fu Jen ^a   Kung, Fu Tsai ^a   Wang, Li Jung ^a   Chang, Shiuh Young ^b   Lan, Kuo Chung ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b Sheng An Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX RATIO; THAWING; VITRIFICATION;

BLASTOCYST; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; COHORT STUDIES; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFERTILITY; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX RATIO; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 70350571782     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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