The diurnal rhythm in fetal heart rate in a twin pregnancy with discordant anencephaly: Comparison with three normal twin pregnancies

Early Human Development

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 47-57

  Lunshof, Simone ^a   Boer, Kees ^a   Van Hoffen, Gerdien ^b   Wolf, Hans ^a   Mirmiran, Majid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anencephaly; Diurnal rhyhm; Fetal heart rate; Twin pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; HUMAN; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ANENCEPHALY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0030897520     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(96)01802-6     Document Type: Article

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