Patient selection criteria for blastocyst culture in IVF/ICSI treatment

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 555-560

  Thum, M Y ^a   Wells, V ^a   Abdalla, H ^a  

^a LISTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blastocyst culture; Embryo selection; Success rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; NORMAL HUMAN; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; TWIN PREGNANCY;

AGE FACTORS; BLASTOCYST; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 78349308066     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-010-9457-9     Document Type: Article

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