Should a single blastocyst transfer policy be a clinical decision or should it depend on the embryological evaluation on day 3?

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Stoop, Dominic ^a   Van Landuyt, Lisbet ^a   Van den Abbeel, Etienne ^a   Camus, Michel ^a   Verheyen, Greta ^a   Devroey, Paul ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BLASTOCYST; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VITRIFICATION; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CYTOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLICY; PREGNANCY; QUALITY CONTROL; TIME;

ADULT; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; POLICY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955561492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-9-60     Document Type: Article

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