Successful early in utero management of fetal hydrothorax in a twin pregnancy

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 221-224

  Lam, H ^a   Yates, R ^b   Jauniaux, E ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Hospital for Sick Children   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fetal; Pleural effusion; Pleuroamniotic shunt; Pregnancy; Twin

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FETUS; FETUS HYDROPS; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; HYDROTHORAX; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; TWIN PREGNANCY;

AMNION; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYDROTHORAX; PLEURAL CAVITY; PREGNANCY; RECURRENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

HYDROPS;

EID: 0037341412     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.567     Document Type: Article

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