Slow oocyte freezing and thawing in couples with no sperm or an insufficient number of sperm on the day of in vitro fertilization

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Virant Klun, Irma ^a   Bacer Kermavner, Liljana ^a   Tomazevic, Tomaz ^a   Vrtacnik Bokal, Eda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OLIGOASTHENOTERATOZOOSPERMIA; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY RATE; SERTOLI CELL ONLY SYNDROME; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; VITRIFICATION; ADULT; BLOOD; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FREEZING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FREEZING; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79251649681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-9-19     Document Type: Article

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