The risk of birth defects in dichorionic twins conceived by assisted reproductive technology

Twin Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 223-227

  Kuwata, Tomoyuki ^a   Matsubara, Shigeki ^a   Ohkuchi, Akihide ^a   Watanabe, Takashi ^a   Izumi, Akio ^a   Honma, Yoko ^a   Yada, Yukari ^a   Shibahara, Hiroaki ^a   Suzuki, Mitsuaki ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BIRTH DEFECT; CHORION; CONCEPTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; REVIEW; RISK; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC;

EID: 3142677878     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/136905204774200488     Document Type: Review

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