The embryology of conjoined twins

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 20, Issue 8-9, 2004, Pages 508-525

  Kaufman, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conjoined twins; Embryology; Monoamniotic twins; Monozygotic twins; Surgical separation

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; ALCOHOL; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; GONADOTROPIN; RETINOL; URETHAN; VINCRISTINE;

AMNION; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CHORION; CONJOINED TWINS; CRANIOPAGUS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FISH; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOUSE; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SITUS INVERSUS; SKULL DEFECT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STILLBIRTH; SURVIVAL; TERATOGENICITY; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYO; EMBRYOLOGY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TWINNING, MONOZYGOTIC; TWINS, CONJOINED; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 4544318562     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-004-0985-4     Document Type: Article

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