Prediction of human blastocyst development from morulas with delayed and/or incomplete compaction

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Ivec, Martin ^a   Kovacic, Borut ^a   Vlaisavljevic, Veljko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

blastocyst development; delayed compaction; inner cell mass size; morphometric analysis; Morula grading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BODY SURFACE; CELL COUNT; DELAYED COMPACTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; HUMAN; INNER CELL MASS; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MORPHOMETRICS; MORULA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 82455192254     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.09.015     Document Type: Article

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