Pictures of IVF eggs with their surrounding cumulus cells - as they are seen at the egg retrieval
Images from our in vitro fertilization IVF laboratory
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Fertility Center of Chicago
Gurnee & Crystal Lake, Illinois
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Egg (dark area
in center) in the
middle of it's adherent mass of hundreds of cumulus cells
Cumulus cells are from the ovarian follicle
They stick to the egg when it releases from the follicle

Closer view of
an egg (bottom left area) in the cumulus
Egg appears dark here because little light penetrates the cumulus mass
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