The hidden mortality of monochorionic twin pregnancies

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 104, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1203-1207

  Sebire, Neil J ^a   Snijders, Rosalinde J M ^a   Hughes, Karen ^a   Sepulveda, Waldo ^a   Nicolaides, Kypros H ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MORTALITY; FETUS WASTAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; TWIN PREGNANCY; ULTRASOUND;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0030884935     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1997.tb10948.x     Document Type: Article

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