Are adverse pregnancy and fetal outcomes more common with assisted reproductive technologies? What should patients be told?

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 123-133

  Gambone, Joseph C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE CITRATE; FERTILITY PROMOTING AGENT;

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BIRTH DEFECT; BREAST CANCER; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS OUTCOME; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MATERNAL CARE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY CANCER; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABNORMALITIES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DISCLOSURE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 33748535765     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.grf.0000197502.06958.50     Document Type: Review

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