Number of good quality embryos on day 3 is predictive for both pregnancy and implantation rates in in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1330-1336

  Volpes, Aldo ^a,b   Sammartano, Francesca ^a   Coffaro, Francesco ^a   Mistretta, Vito ^a   Scaglione, Piero ^a   Allegra, Adolfo ^a  

^a Reproductive Medicine Unit   (Italy)

^b Via Ausonia 43/45   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cleavage speed; eight cell embryos; embryo morphology; implantation rate; pregnancy rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIDATION; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ZYGOTE;

ADULT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 7944234478     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.03.067     Document Type: Article

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