Total fertilization failure: is it the end of the story?

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1155-1160

  Kahyaoglu, Inci ^a   Demir, Berfu ^a   Turkkanı, Ayten ^a   Cınar, Ozgur ^b   Dilbaz, Serdar ^c   Dilbaz, Berna ^a   Mollamahmutoglu, Leyla ^a  

^a Etlik Zubeyde Hanim Women's Health Teaching and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c DUZCE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diminished ovarian reserve; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Mature oocyte; Poor responder; Total fertilization failure

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 84929940270     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-014-0281-5     Document Type: Article

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