Is intracytoplasmic sperm injection safe?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 851-859

  Retzloff, Matthew G ^a   Hornstein, Mark D ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth outcomes; ICSI; Infertility; IVF

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; AZOOSPERMIA; BIRTH; BIRTH DEFECT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CYTOGENETICS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RISK; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0141958106     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(03)01014-8     Document Type: Review

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