Clomiphene and hypospadias on a detailed level: Signal or chance?

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 249-252

  Meijer, Willemijn M ^a   De Jong Van Den Berg, Lolkje T W ^a   Van Den Berg, Marjan D ^b   Verheij, Joke B G M ^b   De Walle, Hermien E K ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Medical Genetics   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Clomiphene; Hypospadias

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL;

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INFERTILITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; OVULATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; VAGINA CANCER;

ABORTION, INDUCED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLOMIPHENE; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 33646235629     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20243     Document Type: Article

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