Open versus closed oocyte vitrification system: A prospective randomized sibling-oocyte study

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 595-602

  Papatheodorou, A ^a,b   Vanderzwalmen, P ^c,d   Panagiotidis, Y ^a   Prapas, N ^a,e   Zikopoulos, K ^b   Georgiou, I ^b   Prapas, Y ^a,e  

^a IANENTRO Fertility Center   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c IVF Centers Prof Zech   (Austria)

^d Centre Hospitalier interregional Edith Cavell   (Belgium)

^e ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

aseptic technique; closed carrier; cryopreservation; oocyte donation; oocyte vitrification; Vitrisafe

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; CLOSED OOCYTE VITRIFICATION SYSTEM; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVE BIRTH; NIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OOCYTE DONATION; OPEN OOCYTE VITRIFICATION SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIBLING; SURVIVAL RATE; VITRIFICATION; WARMING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIBLINGS; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84878613968     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2013.02.014     Document Type: Article

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