Pregnancy Outcomes After Assisted Reproductive Technology

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 220-233

  Allen, Victoria M ^a   Wilson, R Douglas ^b   Cheung, Anthony ^a   Blight, Claire ^a   Désilets, Valerie A ^a   Gagnon, Alain ^a   Langlois, Sylvie F ^a   Summers, Anne ^a   Wyatt, Philip ^a   Claman, Paul ^a   Goodrow, Gwen ^a   Graves, Gillian ^a   Min, Jason ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

^b Faculty of Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Congenital anomalies; Imprinting; Multiple gestation; Pregnancy outcomes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; IMPRINTING DISORDER; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LABOR INDUCTION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVARIAN STIMULATION; PARENTAL STRESS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; THERAPY EFFECT; FEMALE; PREGNANCY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 33750684121     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(16)32112-0     Document Type: Article

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