Contemporary treatments for twin-twin transfusion syndrome

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1469-1477

  Fox, Caroline ^a   Kilby, Mark D ^a   Khan, Khalid S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; CHORION; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMBASE; EVALUATION; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS MEMBRANE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER COAGULATION; MEDLINE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELECTIVE FETICIDE; SEPTOSTOMY; SERIAL AMNIOREDUCTION; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; UTERUS SURGERY;

FEMALE; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 19544371774     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000161322.92539.23     Document Type: Review

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