A Case Series of Pre-Viable Severe Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 645-648

  Wee, Horng Yen ^a   Tan, T Y T ^a   Khoo, P C ^a   Agarwal, P ^a   Yeo, G S H ^a  

^a KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Amnioreduction; Amniotic band; Perinatal outcome; Septostomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNION; AMNIOREDUCTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN ANEMIA; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SINGAPORE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME;

EID: 0242551094     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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