Instability of Doppler cerebral blood flow in monochorionic twins

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 449-454

  Degani, Shimon ^a,b   Leibovitz, Zvi ^a   Shapiro, Israel ^a   Gonen, Ron ^a   Ohel, Gonen ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Doppler ultrasonography; Instability; Monochorionic twins; Twin twin transfusion

Indexed keywords

MEDICINE; NEONATAL MONITORING; NEUROLOGY; STABILITY; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOWS; DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MONOCHORIONIC TWINS; TWIN-TWIN TRANSFUSIONS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CEREBROPLACENTAL RATIO; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY PULSATILITY INDEX; MONOCHORIONIC TWINS; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; TWINS; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL ARTERY PULSATILITY INDEX; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 33646026692     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2006.25.4.449     Document Type: Article

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