Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 5 , Pages 1662-1673 , November 2008

Growth and development of children born after in vitro fertilization

  • Manon Ceelen, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Neuroscience, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Mirjam M. van Weissenbruch, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Neuroscience, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Mirjam M. van Weissenbruch, M.D., Ph.D., VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands (FAX: +31 20 4442422).
    • ,
  • Jan P.W. Vermeiden, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Flora E. van Leeuwen, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Henriette A. Delemarre-van de Waal, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Neuroscience, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Received 1 June 2007 ,Revised 3 September 2007 ,Accepted 4 September 2007.

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