Does meiotic spindle normality predict improved blastocyst development, implantation and live birth rates?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 389-393

  Kilani, Suha ^a,b   Cooke, Simon ^a,b   Tilia, Liza ^a   Chapman, Michael ^a,b  

^a IVF Australia   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

ICSI; Meiotic spindle; polarized light microscopy; PolScope; pregnancy outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROSCOPY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LIVE BIRTH; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NEW SOUTH WALES; OBSERVER VARIATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960646899     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.05.023     Document Type: Article

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