Management of Single Fetal Demise in a Multiple Gestation

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 285-298

  Cleary Goldman, Jane ^a,b   D'Alton, Mary ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION; CHORION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; TEAMWORK; TREATMENT INDICATION; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; ZYGOSITY;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 1642320748     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.OGX.0000120165.52159.04     Document Type: Review

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