Early structural status of the eyes of healthy term neonates conceived by in vitro fertilization or conceived naturally

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5454-5458

  Axer Siegel, Ruth ^a,c   Herscovici, Zvi ^a,c   Davidson, Samuel ^a   Linder, Nehama ^a,c   Sherf, Ilana ^b   Snir, Moshe ^a,b,c  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEA THICKNESS; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOMETRY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE; FERTILIZATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LENS; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; TERM BIRTH; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

BIOMETRY; BODY CONSTITUTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EYE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETINAL VESSELS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TERM BIRTH;

EID: 38549166681     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0929     Document Type: Article

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