Prevention of multiple pregnancies in infertility treatment

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 829-840

  Tiitinen, Aila ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

assisted reproductive treatment; cryopreservation; elective single embryo transfer; multiple pregnancy; ovulation induction; ovulation stimulation

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE CITRATE; GONADOTROPIN; LETROZOLE;

ARTICLE; COUNSELING; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LIVE BIRTH; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVULATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWIN PREGNANCY;

CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RISK; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER;

EID: 84867864445     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2012.05.011     Document Type: Article

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