Múltiple pregnancy: How important is the problem?;Gestación múltiple: ¿Hasta qué punto es un problema?

Revista Iberoamericana de Fertilidad y Reproduccion Humana

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 181-194

  Romeu, Alberto ^a   Monzo A ^a   Fernandez Colom P J ^a   Oehninger, S ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artificial insemination; Assited reproductive technology; Ectopic pregnancy; Embryo reduction; Heterotopic pregnancy; IVF; Miscarriage; Multiple pregnancy; Vanishing twin

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FETUS RISK; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

EID: 0036589057     PISSN: 11320249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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