Complications in High Order Multiple Pregnancies;Komplikationen bei höhergradigen Mehrlingsschwangerschaften für Mutter und Kinder

Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 168-177

  Ludwig, M ^a   Kohl, M ^b   Kruger A ^b   Loning M ^b   Schroder A ^b   Katalinic, A ^c   Diedrich, K ^b  

^a Gynakol Endokrinol/Reprod Med   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

IVF; Quadruplets; Triplets

Indexed keywords

PROSTAGLANDIN;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; DISABILITY; DYSTOCIA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 1342281537     PISSN: 00165751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-815741     Document Type: Article

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