Monochorionic diamniotic infants without twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 753-758

  Cordero, Leandro ^a,b   Franco, Albert ^a   Joy, Saju D ^a   O'Shaughnessy, Richard W ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREMATURITY; TWIN CONCORDANCE; TWIN DISCORDANCE; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME;

AMNION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHORION; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; FETAL DISTRESS; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; MALE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 29644433456     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: 14765543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7211405     Document Type: Article

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