Birth defects in children conceived by in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection: A meta-analysis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Wen, Juan ^a   Jiang, Jie ^a   Ding, Chenyue ^a   Dai, Juncheng ^a   Liu, Yao ^a   Xia, Yankai ^a   Liu, Jiayin ^a   Hu, Zhibin ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Birth defects; ICSI; IVF; meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM MALFORMATION; EAR MALFORMATION; EYE MALFORMATION; FACE MALFORMATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MATERNAL AGE; META ANALYSIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM MALFORMATION; NECK MALFORMATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION;

EID: 84861604570     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.02.053     Document Type: Article

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