Successful spontaneous pregnancies in women older than 45 years

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1328-1332

  Laufer, Neri ^a   Simon, Alex ^a   Samueloff, Arnon ^b   Yaffe, Haim ^c   Milwidsky, Ariel ^a   Gielchinsky, Yuval ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Bikur Cholim Medical Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

Maternal age; reproductive aging; spontaneous abortion; spontaneous pregnancies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANAMNESIS; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPARA; PARITY; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

EID: 2442507024     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.09.056     Document Type: Article

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