ICSI and day 5 embryo transfers: higher implantation rates and lower rate of multiple pregnancy with prolonged culture

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 216-220

  Abdelmassih, Vicente ^a   Balmaceda, Jose P ^a   Nagy, Zsolt P ^a   Abdelmassih, Soraya ^a   Abdelmassih, Roger ^a  

^a Clínica e Centro de Pesquisa Em Reprodução Humana Roger Abdelmassih   (Brazil)

Author keywords

blastocyst; ICSI; multiple gestation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OOCYTE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 85006115575     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)62039-1     Document Type: Article

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