The impact of ovulation induction and in vitro fertilization on the incidence of multiple gestations

Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation, and Perinatal Outcome

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 119-139

  Dickey, R P ^a   Sartor, B M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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