The incidence of monozygotic twinning in assisted reproductive technology: Analysis based on results from the 2010 Japanese ART national registry

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 803-807

  Nakasuji, Takashi ^a,e   Saito, Hidekazu ^a   Araki, Ryuichiro ^b   Nakaza, Aritoshi ^c   Nakashima, Akira ^c   Kuwahara, Akira ^d   Ishihara, Osamu ^b   Irahara, Minoru ^d   Kubota, Toshiro ^e   Yoshimura, Yasunori ^f   Sakumoto, Tetsuro ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Alba Okinawa Clinic   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^e TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assisted hatching; Blastocyst transfer; Frozen thawed embryo transfer; Monozygotic twinning; National ART registry system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSISTED HATCHING; BLASTOCYST; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HATCHING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MATERNAL AGE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVARIAN STIMULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADULT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INFANT; MALE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OVULATION INDUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TWINNING, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84904406445     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-014-0225-0     Document Type: Article

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