Long-term health implications for children conceived by IVF/ICSI

Human Fertility

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-27

  Steel, Anna Judith ^a   Sutcliffe, Alastair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ICSI; In vitro fertilization; Infertility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONGENITAL DISORDER; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREMATURE BIRTH;

EID: 67549093931     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: 17428149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14647270802499201     Document Type: Article

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