The impact of vanishing fetuses on the outcome of ICSI pregnancies

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2430-2432

  Mansour, Ragaa ^a   Serour, Gamal ^a   Aboulghar, Mohamed ^a   Kamal, Omnia ^a   Al Inany, Hesham ^a  

^a EGYPTIAN IVF ET CENTER   (Egypt)

Author keywords

ICSI; live birth; miscarriage; vanishing fetuses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WASTAGE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TWIN PREGNANCY; YOLK SAC;

ABORTED FETUS; ADULT; EMBRYO LOSS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PROGNOSIS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWINS;

EID: 78049309848     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.02.058     Document Type: Article

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