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

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 632-646

  Balaban, Başak ^a   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   Magli, M Cristina ^k   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   (United States)

^s ROSE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^t GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

Assisted conception; Consensus meeting; Embryo assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONSENSUS; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORPHOLOGY; MORULA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); ZONA PELLUCIDA; ZYGOTE;

BLASTOMERES; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OOCYTES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958074035     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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