Limitations of embryo selection methods

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 127-133

  Wong, Kai Mee ^a   Repping, Sjoerd ^a   Mastenbroek, Sebastiaan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction; cryopreservation; embryo selection; embryo transfer; IVF outcome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO SELECTION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LIVE BIRTH; MORPHOLOGY; NIDATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; STANDARD;

CELL SHAPE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84907671684     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1363554     Document Type: Article

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