Monochorionic high-order multiple pregnancies and multifetal pregnancy reduction

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 561-566

  De Catte, Luc ^a,c   Camus, Michel ^b   Foulon, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CHORION; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS WASTAGE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ADULT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY REDUCTION, MULTIFETAL; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PROBABILITY; QUADRUPLETS; QUINTUPLETS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRIPLETS; TWINS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0036710630     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(02)02075-6     Document Type: Article

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