Patient selection criteria for blastocyst transfers in extended embryo culture programs

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1357-1362

  Braga, Daniela Paes Almeida Ferreira ^a,b   Setti, Amanda S ^a,b   De Cássia S Figueira, Rita ^a   Machado, Rogério Bonassi ^c   Iaconelli Jr , Assumpto ^a   Borges Jr , Edson ^a,b  

^a Centro de Fertilização Assistida   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Sapientiae   (Brazil)

^c FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DE JUNDIAÍ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Embryo; FSH; Maternal age; Morphology

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BODY MASS; COMPETENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MORPHOLOGY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTES; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PREGNANCY; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 84878366592     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-012-9875-y     Document Type: Article

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