The relationship between sperm head retardance using polarized light microscopy and clinical outcomes

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 67-73

  Vermey, Belinda G ^a,b   Chapman, Michael G ^a,b   Cooke, Simon ^a,b   Kilani, Suha ^a,b  

^a IVFAustralia   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

ICSI; polarized light microscopy; pregnancy outcome; sperm head birefringence; sperm head retardance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERMATOZOON HEAD; SPERMATOZOON HEAD RETARDANCE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; LIGHT; MALE INFERTILITY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PREGNANCY; SPERMATOZOON; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LIGHT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERM HEAD; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920193449     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2014.09.011     Document Type: Article

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