Morphological embryo assessment: Reevaluation

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Bar Yoseph, Haggai ^a,b   Levy, Amalia ^b   Sonin, Yael ^a,b   Alboteanu, Sarit ^a,b   Levitas, Eliahu ^a,b   Lunenfeld, Eitan ^a,b   Har Vardi, Iris ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

implantation rate; In vitro fertilization; nuclear scoring; pronuclear scoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO NUCLEAR SCORING; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEAR SCORING; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 79952993840     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.01.034     Document Type: Article

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