Fetal therapy in twin reversed arterial perfusion sequence pregnancies with alcohol ablation or bipolar cord coagulation

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 278, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 541-545

  Gul, Ahmet ^a   Gungorduk, Kemal ^a,b   Yildirim, Gokhan ^a   Gedikbasi, Ali ^a   Yildirim, Dogukan ^a   Ceylan, Yavuz ^a  

^a Istanbul Bakirkoy Women and Children Hospital   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acardiac twin; Alcohol ablation; Bipolar coagulation; Twin reversed arterial perfusion sequence

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ABDOMEN; ABORTION; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR CORD COAGULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DELIVERY; ECHOGRAPHY; FAMILY; FETAL THERAPY; FETUS; FETUS SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; FORCEPS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INJECTION; INTERVENTION STUDY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NEEDLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAP SEQUENCE; TROCAR; TWINS; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL CORD;

CATHETER ABLATION; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY REDUCTION, MULTIFETAL; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 54349092411     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-008-0640-5     Document Type: Article

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