Is pronuclear scoring a really good predictor for ICSI cycles?

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 742-747

  Aydin, Sevim ^a   Cinar, Ozgur ^a   Demir, Berfu ^a   Korkmaz, Cem ^b   Ozdegirmenci, Ozlem ^a   Dilbaz, Serdar ^a   Goktolga, Umit ^a  

^a Etlik Zubeyde Hanim Women's Health Teaching and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

ICSI; pronuclear scoring; zygote

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OOCYTE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEAR SCORING; SCORING SYSTEM; ZYGOTE;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS; ECTOGENESIS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; ZYGOTE;

EID: 80053913779     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: 14730766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09513590.2010.509829     Document Type: Article

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