The Suleman octuplets: What can an aberration teach us?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 341-343

  Stillman, Robert J ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY REDUCTION, MULTIFETAL; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 74549140866     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.12.012     Document Type: Article

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