Haematological indices at fetal blood sampling in monochorionic pregnancies complicated by feto-fetal transfusion syndrome

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 941-946

  Denbow, Mark ^a   Fogliani, Roberto ^a   Kyle, Phillipa ^a   Letsky, Elizabeth ^b   Nicolini, Umberto ^c   Fisk, Nicholas ^a  

^a QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fetal blood sampling; Fetal haemoglobin; Feto fetal transfusion syndrome

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN F;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELIVERY; DONOR; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD SAMPLING; FETUS DISEASE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; TWIN PREGNANCY;

BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0031786254     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199809)18:9<941::AID-PD427>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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