The impact of fetal gender on prematurity in dichorionic twin gestations after in vitro fertilization

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Weghofer, Andrea ^a,b   Klein, Katharina ^a   Stammler Safar, Maria ^a   Worda, Christof ^a   Barad, David H ^b   Husslein, Peter ^a   Gleicher, Norbert ^b,c  

^a UNIV KLIN FÜR FRAUENHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

^b Center for Human Reproduction (CHR) and Foundation for Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PARITY; PREDICTION; PREMATURITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TWIN PREGNANCY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; STATISTICS;

ADULT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953243288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-8-57     Document Type: Article

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