Attitudes of IVF/ICSI-twin mothers towards twins and single embryo transfer

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 621-627

  Pinborg, Anja ^a   Loft, Anne ^a   Schmidt, Lone ^a   Andersen, Anders Nyboe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Attitudes; IVF; Mothers; Single embryo transfer; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DENMARK; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOTHER; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COUNSELING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWINS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 0037339001     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deg145     Document Type: Article

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