Monozygotic twinning is not increased after single blastocyst transfer compared with single cleavage-stage embryo transfer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 592-597

  Papanikolaou, Evangelosa G ^a,b   Fatemi, Human ^a   Venetis, Christos ^b   Donoso, Pato ^a   Kolibianakis, Efstratios ^b   Tournaye, Herman ^a   Tarlatzis, Basil ^b   Devroey, Paul ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b PAPAGEORGIOU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

blastocyst stage; cleavage stage; IVF; Monozygotic twinning; risks; single embryo transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NIDATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIVISION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TWINNING, MONOZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 74849091101     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.12.088     Document Type: Article

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