Selective feticide in monoamniotic twin pregnancies by umbilical cord occlusion and transection

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 121-125

  Middeldorp, Johanna M ^a   Klumper, Frans J C M ^a   Oepkes, Dick ^a   Lopriore, Enrico ^a   Kanhai, Humphrey H H ^a   Vandenbussche, Frank P H A ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cord occlusion; Cord transection; Feticide, selective; Fetoscopy; Laser; Monoamniotic twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART BLOCK; FEMALE; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS OUTCOME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWIN DISCORDANCE; TWIN PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL CORD;

ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY REDUCTION, MULTIFETAL; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 40049105407     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000111591     Document Type: Article

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