Estimating rates of multiple gestation pregnancies: Sample size calculation from the assessment of multiple intrauterine gestations from ovarian stimulation (AMIGOS) trial

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 902-908

  Diamond, Michael P ^a   Mitwally, Mohamed ^b   Casper, Robert ^c   Ager, Joel ^a   Legro, Richard S ^d   Brzyski, Robert ^e   Casson, Peter ^f   Eisenberg, Esther ^g   Zhang, Heping ^h  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Canadian American Reproductive Medicine   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^f FLETCHER ALLEN HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^g EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^h YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatase inhibitor; Gonadotropins; Multiple gestation; Ovulation induction; Unexplained infertility

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE CITRATE; GONADOTROPIN; LETROZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; CLOMIPHENE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFERTILITY; MALE; NITRILES; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZOLES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053383258     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: 15592030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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