Multiple births resulting from assisted reproductive technologies in the United States, 1997-2001

Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation, and Perinatal Outcome

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 58-67

  Markovitz, J ^a   Hershlag, A ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

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