Twin chorionicity and the risk of stillbirth

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 301-308

  Lee, Young Mi ^a   Wylie, Blair J ^a   Simpson, Lynn L ^a   D'Alton, Mary E ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNION; ARTICLE; CHORION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL DISORDER; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN ANEMIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STILLBIRTH; TWINS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME;

ADULT; AMNION; CHORION; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STILLBIRTH; TWINS;

EID: 40749111971     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e318160d65d     Document Type: Article

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