National collection of embryo morphology data into Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Clinic Outcomes Reporting System: Associations among day 3 cell number, fragmentation and blastomere asymmetry, and live birth rate

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1985-1989

  Racowsky, Catherine ^a   Stern, Judy E ^b   Gibbons, William E ^c   Behr, Barry ^d   Pomeroy, Kimball O ^e   Biggers, John D ^f  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Arizona Reproductive Medicine Specialists   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Day 3 embryo morphology; embryo asymmetry; embryo fragmentation; evaluation; live birth rate; SART CORS; standardization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL COUNT; DATA BASE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL AGE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; BLASTOMERES; CELL COUNT; CELL SHAPE; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MULTIPLE BIRTH OFFSPRING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955012726     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.02.009     Document Type: Article

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