Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 2 , Pages 543-548 , July 2010

Clinical predictors of human blastocyst formation and pregnancy after extended embryo culture and transfer

Received 9 January 2009 ,Revised 1 March 2009 ,Accepted 11 March 2009.

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 M.R.T. has nothing to disclose. A.E.S. has nothing to disclose. G.L.R. has nothing to disclose. B.J.V.V. has nothing to disclose.

 This research supported in part by the Mary Ellen Molinaro-Blonigan Research Fund.

PII: S0015-0282(09)00619-0

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.03.051

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 2 , Pages 543-548 , July 2010

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