Developmental outcome of very low birth weight twins conceived by assisted reproduction techniques

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 130-133

  Ito, A ^a   Honma, Yokohoma ^a   Inamori, E ^a   Yada, Y ^a   Momoi, M Y ^a   Nakamura, Y ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assisted conception; Cognition; Language; Twin; VLBW

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLEEDING; BODY POSTURE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEUKOMALACIA; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TWINS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; ADULT; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TWINS;

EID: 33646116837     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: 14765543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7211433     Document Type: Article

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