Twin-to-twin transfusion: Update on management options and outcomes

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 618-622

  Duncan, Keith R ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Monochorionic; Pregnancy outcome; Twin to twin transfusion; Twins

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; ANEMIA; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FETUS DEATH; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS SURGERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYDROPS; LASER COAGULATION; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPTOSTOMY; STAGING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME;

EID: 27844580677     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.gco.0000188410.36982.58     Document Type: Review

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