Clinical outcome of fresh and vitrified-warmed blastocyst and cleavage-stage embryo transfers in ethnic Chinese ART patients

Journal of Ovarian Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Tong, Guo Qing ^a   Cao, Shan Ren ^b   Wu, Xun ^b   Zhang, Jun Qiang ^b   Cui, Ji ^b   Heng, Boon Chin ^c   Ling, Xiu Feng ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blastocyst transfer; Clinical pregnancy; Implantation; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84867012865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17572215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-2215-5-27     Document Type: Article

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