Selective reduction

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 103-111

  Evans, Mark I ^a   Krivchenia, Eric L ^a   Gelber, Shari E ^b   Wapner, Ronald J ^b  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE CITRATE; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; UROFOLLITROPIN;

AMNIOCENTESIS; ASYSTOLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME 21; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EUROPE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEEDLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SELECTIVE ABORTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWIN DISCORDANCE; TWIN PREGNANCY; ULTRASOUND; UNITED STATES; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0037347697     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-5108(02)00091-X     Document Type: Review

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