Late onset of discordant growth in a monochorionic twin pregnancy: Vascular anastomoses determine fetal growth pattern and not placental sharing

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-25

  Nikkels, Peter G J ^a   Van Gemert, Martin J C ^b   Briët, Jan Willem ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c DEVENTER HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous anastomosis; Discordant growth, late onset; Monochorionic placenta; Placental sharing, unequal; Twin twin transfusion syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS ANASTOMOSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FETAL HEMOGLOBIN; FETAL WEIGHT; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0035184329     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000053875     Document Type: Article

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