The Istanbul consensus workshop on embryo assessment: Proceedings of an expert meeting

Human Reproduction

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1270-1283

  Balaban, Baak ^a,u   Brison, Daniel ^b   Calderón, Gloria ^c   Catt, James ^d   Conaghan, Joe ^e   Cowan, Lisa ^f   Ebner, Thomas ^g   Gardner, David ^h   Hardarson, Thorir ⁱ   Lundin, Kersti ^j   Cristina Magli, M ^k,v   Mortimer, David ^l   Mortimer, Sharon ^l   Munné, Santiago ^m   Royere, Dominique ⁿ   Scott, Lynette ^o   Smitz, Johan ^p   Thornhill, Alan ^q   Van Blerkom, Jonathan ^r,s   Van Den Abbeel, Etienne ^t  

^a AMERICAN HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c IVI Barcelona   (Spain)

^d Optimal IVF   (Australia)

^e Pacific Fertility Center   (United States)

^f Victoria Fertility Centre   (Canada)

^g KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

ⁱ Fertilitetscentrum   (Sweden)

^j SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^k SISMER   (Italy)

^l Oozoa Biomedical Inc   (Canada)

^m Reprogenetics LLC   (United States)

ⁿ CHU BRETONNEAU   (France)

^o Fertility Centers of New England   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^q London Bridge Fertility Gynaecology and Genetics Centre   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^s ROSE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^t GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^u ALPHA Scientists in Reproductive Medicine   (Switzerland)

^v ESHRE SIGE (Special Interest Group Embryology)   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

assisted conception; consensus meeting; embryo assessment

Indexed keywords

BLASTOCYST; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MORULA; OOCYTE; SCORING SYSTEM; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WORKSHOP; ZYGOTE;

EID: 79957533987     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/der037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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