To transfer fresh or Thawed Embryos?

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 230-235

  Pinborg, Anja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

clinical efficiency; cryopreservation; cumulative pregnancy rate; embryos; frozen embryo replacement (FER); perinatal outcome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD SAFETY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; EPIGENETICS; FREEZE THAWING; FRESH EMBRYO TRANSFER; FROZEN EMBRYO REPLACEMENT; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION;

CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE;

EID: 84860898662     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1311525     Document Type: Article

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