Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 3 , Pages 897-903 , September 2009

Selective microsurgical removal of a pronucleus from tripronuclear human oocytes to restore diploidy: disregarded but valuable?

  • Bernd E. Rosenbusch, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Bernd E. Rosenbusch, Ph.D., Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Ulm, Prittwitzstrasse 43, D-89075 Ulm, Germany (FAX: ++49-731-500-58664).

Received 31 March 2008 ,Revised 12 June 2008 ,Accepted 14 July 2008.

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 B.E.R. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(08)03263-9

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.07.1740

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 3 , Pages 897-903 , September 2009

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