TY - BOOK AU - Ola Ismail Hassan AU - Abdelwahab Elghareeb , AU - Aziza Mansour Ali , AU - Mustafa M. Zaher , TI - Evaluation of human zygote characteristics as an efficient tool for embryo selection in intracytoplasmic sperm injection / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ola Ismail Hassan , KW - Embryo quality KW - Embryo selection KW - ICSI N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Science - Department of Zoology; Issued also as CD N2 - Some studies have thought that zygote morphology could be used for the assessment of human embryo quality .In the present study PN stage morphology was assessed and combined with day 2 or 3 morphology for transfer in order to investigate whether currently used zygote classifications are able to predict embryo quality and pregnancy rates . Zygotes were analysed according to two different classification systems Tesarik and Greco (1999) and Kattera and Chen (2004) A total of 499 zygotes were analysed ER -