Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 2 , Pages 754.e1-754.e2 , July 2010

Is it the patient or the IVF? Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome in both spontaneous and assisted reproductive conceptions

  • Estil Y. Strawn Jr., M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Estil Y. Strawn, Jr., MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director Division of Reproductive Medicine Endocrinology and Infertility, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226 (FAX: 414-805-6622).
    • ,
  • David Bick, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    • ,
  • Amy Swanson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Laboratories, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Received 13 April 2009 ,Revised 22 January 2010 ,Accepted 26 January 2010.

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 E.S. has nothing to disclose. D.B. has nothing to disclose. A.S. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(10)00142-1

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.01.067

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 2 , Pages 754.e1-754.e2 , July 2010

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