Why is it important to diagnose chorionicity and how do we do it?

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 515-530

  Machin, Geoffrey A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Demise; Diamniotic; Dichorionic; Growth discordance; Marginal; Monoamniotic; Monochorionic; Termination; Termination of pregnancy; Twin; Twin transfusion; Twinning; Ultrasound; Umbilical cord; Velamentous

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS MORTALITY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWIN REVERSED ARTERIAL PERFUSION; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; UMBILICAL CORD;

CHORION; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 3543056931     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2004.04.013     Document Type: Review

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