Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Russell, N ^a   McAuliffe, F ^a   Carroll, S ^a   Mc Parland, P ^a  

^a NATIONAL MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FETUS DEATH; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MORTALITY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; LASER SURGERY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PREMATURE LABOR; STAGING; SURVIVAL RATE; TWIN DISCORDANCE; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; ABORTION; DECISION MAKING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IRELAND; NEWBORN ANEMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTOR;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; IRELAND; LASER SURGERY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 35348970843     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: 03323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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