Transcervical embryoscopic diagnosis of conjoined twins in a ten-week missed abortion

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 626-628

  Yin, Chang Sheng ^a   Chen, Wei Hwa ^b   Wei, Roger You Chi ^a   Chan, Chying Chyuan ^a  

^a BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Conjoined twins; Missed abortion; Prenatal diagnosis; Sonography; Transcervical embryoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONJOINED TWINS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETOSCOPY; HUMAN; MISSED ABORTION; MORPHOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME OF DEATH;

ABORTION, MISSED; ABORTION, THERAPEUTIC; ADULT; FEMALE; FETOSCOPY; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; TWINS, CONJOINED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0031801705     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199806)18:6<626::AID-PD314>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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