Minimally-invasive intrauterine treatment in four monochorionic twin pregnancies complicated by an acardiac;Minimaal invasieve intra-uteriene chirurgische behandeling bij vier monochoriale tweelingzwangerschappen gecompliceerd door een acardiacus

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 147, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 931-936

  Vandenbussche, F P H A ^a   Deprest, J A ^b   Klumper, F J C M ^a   Vandenbroucke, W V A ^c   Sollie, K M ^d   Kanhai, H H H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c LEYENBURG HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARDIUS; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PUMP; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS SURGERY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART WORK; HUMAN; LABOR; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LASER COAGULATION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TWIN PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL CORD; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 0037991335     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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