Multifetal pregnancy reduction in pregnancies with a monochorionic component

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 474-476

  Athanasiadis, Apostolos P ^a,b   Zafrakas, Menelaos ^b   Tarlatzis, Basilios C ^b   Vaitsi, Violetta ^b   Mikos, Themistoklis ^b   Bontis, John ^b  

^a Prenatal Diagnostic Center of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CHORION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 13544272784     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.09.017     Document Type: Article

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