[Neoadjuvant chemotherapy with paclitaxel and cisplantin or carboplatin for patients with locally advanced uterine cervical cancer].

Objective: To investigate the efficacy and toxicity of neoadjuvant chemotherapy with paclitaxel and carboplatin or cisplatin for patients with locally advanced cervical cancer.

Methods: A total of 70 patients with locally advanced cervical cancer were treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy with paclitaxel and carboplatin or cisplatin in our department from July 2007 to May 2010. The stage distribution among the patients included 45 stage IB2, 21 stage IIa, and 4 stage IIb.

Successful pregnancy following the transfer of vitrified blastocyst which developed from poor quality embryos on day 3.

Background: The selection of pre-embryos for transferred is based on morphological appearance. But some poor quality cleaved embryos also can be cultured to the blastocyst stage and implanted.

Objective: To assess the clinical pregnancy outcomes of blastocyst transfer which developed from poor quality embryos.

Effect of the size of zona pellucida thinning by laser assisted hatching on clinical outcome of human frozen-thawed embryo transfers.

Of 122 consecutive procedures, 31 were not assisted hatching (AH), which served as the control group, 34 were AH with 40 microm thinning of the zona, and 57 were AH with 80 microns of the zona thinning. The pregnancy and implantation rates were significantly higher in 80 microns thinning group compared to control group (40.3 vs.