Irregular cleavage of early preimplantation human embryos: characteristics of patients and pregnancy outcomes

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1811-1815

  Almagor, Miriam ^a,b   Or, Yuval ^a   Fieldust, Sheila ^a   Shoham, Zeev ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Embryo development; Implantation; Irregular cleavage; Pregnancy; Time lapse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE INFERTILITY; METAPHASE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; NIDATION; PREGNANCY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIVISION; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84951907318     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-015-0591-2     Document Type: Article

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