Triplet pregnancy complicated by intrauterine fetal death of conjoined twins from an umbilical cord accident of an acardius: A case report

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 459-462

  Chang, Daw Yuan ^a   Chang, Ray Yen ^a   Chen, Ruey Jien ^a   Chen, Chun Kai ^a   Cheng, Wen Fang ^a   Huang, Su Cheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

fetal death; triplets; twins, conjoined

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONJOINED TWINS; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FETUS HEART RATE; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD;

ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; TORSION; TRIPLETS; TWINS, CONJOINED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 0030000910     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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