Real-time imaging strategies to improve morphological assessment

Human Gametes and Preimplantation Embryos: Assessment and Diagnosis

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 45-53

  Cruz, María ^a   Muñoz, Manuel ^b   Meseguer, Marcos ^b  

^a IVI Alicante   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INFERTILIDAD   (Spain)

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EID: 84929545422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6651-2_5     Document Type: Chapter

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