Risk factors associated with pregnancies containing a monochorionic pair following assisted reproductive technologies

Human Reproduction

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1366-1371

  Skiadas, Christine C ^a   Missmer, Stacey A ^a,b   Benson, Carol B ^a   Gee, Rebekah E ^a   Racowsky, Catherine ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted hatching; ICSI; IVF; Monochorionic placentation; Monozygotic pregnancies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHORION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 44449125201     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/den045     Document Type: Article

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