Conjoined twins - The Cape Town experience

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 234-248

  Cywes, S ^a   Millar, A J W ^a   Rode, H ^a   Brown, R A ^a  

^a RED CROSS WAR MEMORIAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Conjoined twins; Evaluation; Surgical separation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONJOINED TWINS; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SURGERY; OSTEOTOMY; PANCREAS; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SPINAL CORD;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME FACTORS; TWINS, CONJOINED;

EID: 0030895512     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003830050123     Document Type: Article

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