Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 2 , Pages 289-296 , August 2008

Cognitive development of singletons born after intracytoplasmic sperm injection compared with in vitro fertilization and natural conception

  • Marjolein Knoester, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Neonatal Center, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
    • Department of Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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  • Frans M. Helmerhorst, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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  • Jan P. Vandenbroucke, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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  • Lucette A.J. van der Westerlaken, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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  • Frans J. Walther, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Neonatal Center, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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  • Sylvia Veen, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Neonatal Center, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Sylvia Veen, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, Neonatal Center, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands (FAX: +31 (0) 71-524-8198).
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  • Leiden Artificial Reproductive Techniques Follow-up Project

Received 24 April 2007 ,Revised 27 June 2007 ,Accepted 27 June 2007.

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 This study was funded by the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

 Presented in poster form at the annual meeting of the Society of Pediatric Research, San Francisco, California, May 2006.

PII: S0015-0282(07)01447-1

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.06.090

Fertility and Sterility
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