Fetoscopic laser surgery in 100 pregnancies with severe twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome in the Netherlands

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 190-194

  Middeldorp, J M ^a   Sueters, M ^a   Lopriore, E ^a   Klumper, F J C M ^a   Oepkes, D ^a   Devlieger, R ^b   Kanhai, H H H ^a   Vandenbussche, F P H A ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Laser surgery; Monochorionic twin pregnancy; Twin to twin transfusion syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME;

FEMALE; FETAL THERAPIES; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; FETOSCOPY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LASER SURGERY; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247176621     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098715     Document Type: Article

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