Monoamniotic twin pregnancy: A review of contemporary practice

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 474-478

  Dickinson, Jan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complications; Cord entanglement; Monoamniotic; Pregnancy; Twins

Indexed keywords

SULINDAC;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DELIVERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FETUS DEATH; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MEDLINE; MONOAMNIOTIC TWIN PREGNANCY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBSTETRIC CARE; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; UMBILICAL CORD COMPLICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME;

DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TWINNING, MONOZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33745008862     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2005.00479.x     Document Type: Review

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