Intrauterine growth restriction in like-sex twins discordant for structural defects

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 246-248

  Chambers, Christina D ^a,b,d   Castilla, Eduardo E ^c   Orioli, Ieda ^c   Jones, Kenneth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Latin American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECLAMC)   (Brazil)

^d UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypospadias; Intrauterine growth restriction; Like sex twin; Structural malformations

Indexed keywords

ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

ABNORMALITIES; BIRTH WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KARYOTYPING; LATIN AMERICA; PREGNANCY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TWINS;

EID: 33646245665     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20247     Document Type: Article

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