Consequences of vanishing twins in IVF/ICSI pregnancies

Human Reproduction

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2821-2829

  Pinborg, Anja ^a   Lidegaard, Øjvind ^b   la Cour Freiesleben, Nina ^a   Andersen, Anders Nyboe ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Neonatal outcome; Spontaneous reduction; Vanishing twin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW UP; GESTATION PERIOD; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARITY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TWIN PREGNANCY; VANISHING TWIN;

EID: 27144538198     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dei142     Document Type: Article

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