Acardiac twin pregnancy: Associated with trisomy 2

Human Reproduction

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 474-475

  Blaicher, W ^a,b   Repa, C ^b   Schaller, A ^b  

^a University of Vienna ^*  (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acardius; Trisomy 2; Twin pregnancy; Twin reversed arterial perfusion

Indexed keywords

PROSTAGLANDIN;

ACARDIUS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONJOINED TWINS; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFANT; KARYOTYPE; LABOR INDUCTION; TRISOMY; TWIN PREGNANCY;

EID: 0033979260     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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