Prenatal therapy for primary fetal hydrothorax in a dichorionic twin pregnancy [3]

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 584-586

  Van Mieghem, Tim ^a   Lewi, Liesbeth ^a   Van Schoubroeck, Dominique ^a   Oepkes, Dick ^b   De Boeck, Kris ^a   Devlieger, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE;

AMNIOCENTESIS; CYTOLOGY; FETUS DISEASE; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; LETTER; PLEURODESIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; TWINS;

ADULT; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; HYDROTHORAX; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33745597646     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1458     Document Type: Letter

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