Can twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome be explained, and how is it treated?

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 105-113

  Machin, Geoffrey A ^a,c   Keith, Louis G ^b  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Pathology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOMETACIN; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

AMNIOCENTESIS; ANASTOMOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEWBORN ANEMIA; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TOCOLYSIS; TWIN PREGNANCY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REVIEW;

FEMALE; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0032011357     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-199803000-00016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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