Monozygotic twin delivery following reduction from quadramniotic-dichorionic gestation established after ICSI and embryo transfer: Case report

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 444-446

  Wehbe, Salim A ^a   Tucker, Michael J ^a   Palermo, Gianpiero D ^b   Sills, E Scott ^a  

^a ATLANTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Delivery; IVF; Monozygotic; Quadramniotic; Twins

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; CASE REPORT; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME 21; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GESTATION PERIOD; HATCHING; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MICROMANIPULATION; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PLACENTA; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TWIN PREGNANCY; VAGINAL DELIVERY; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0037326141     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deg027     Document Type: Article

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