Clinician to clinician: For some IVF patients, twins are the best outcome: To properly measure risk, the author argues, researchers must compare 1 twin pregnancy with 2 consecutive singleton pregnancies

Contemporary Ob/Gyn

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 40-46

  Gleicher, Norbert ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR HUMAN REPRODUCTION   (United States)

^b Foundation for Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

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