Late selective termination of fetal abnormalities in twin pregnancies: A multicentre report

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 103, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1212-1216

  Lipitz, Shlomo ^a   Shalev, Eliezer ^b   Meizner, Israel ^c   Yagel, Simcha ^d   Weinraub, Zvi ^a   Jaffa, Ariel ^a   Shalev, Joseph ^a   Achiron, Reuwen ^a   Schiff, Eyal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LAW; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY REDUCTION, MULTIFETAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TWINS;

EID: 0029808107     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1996.tb09631.x     Document Type: Article

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