Quadruplet pregnancy: Two sets of twins, each occupying a horn of a septate (complete) uterus

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1107-1112

  Monteagudo, Ana ^a   Strok, Irina ^a   Greenidge, Suzanne ^b   Timor Tritsch, Ilan E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASE CONTROL; MEDICAL IMAGING;

FETUSES; QUADRUPLET PREGNANCIES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVULATION INDUCTION; UTERUS BICORNIS; UTERUS DIDELPHYS;

EID: 3543043087     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2004.23.8.1107     Document Type: Article

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