Diagnosis of conjoined twins before 16 weeks' gestation: The 4-year experience of one medical center

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 839-843

  Maymon, Ron ^a,b   Mendelovic, Sonia ^a,b   Schachter, Morey ^a   Ron El, Raphael ^a   Weinraub, Zwi ^a   Herman, Arie ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Conjoined twins; Dissimilar gender; Multiple pregnancy; Nuchal translucency; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJOINED TWINS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NECK CYST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; ISRAEL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TWINS; TWINS, CONJOINED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 26044471143     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1274     Document Type: Article

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