Should ICSI be recommended routinely in patients with four or fewer oocytes retrieved?

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 911-915

  Luna, Martha ^a,b   Bigelow, Catherine ^a,b   Duke, Marlena ^a,b   Ruman, Jane ^a,b   Sandler, Benjamin ^a,b   Grunfeld, Lawrence ^a,b   Copperman, Alan B ^a,b,c  

^a Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

ICSI; IVF; Oocyte retrieval; Poor response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERM; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

EID: 84355163052     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-011-9614-9     Document Type: Article

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