Clinical and anatomic features of acardiac twins

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 375-379

  Chanoufi, Mohamed Bédis ^a   Temime, Riadh Ben ^a   Masmoudi, Aïda ^a   Ounaïssa, Kamilia ^a   Jebnoun, Sami ^a   Abid, Walid ^a   Nsiri, Rafika ^a   Chelli, Héla ^a   Khrouf, Naïma ^a   Siala Gaïgi, Soumaya ^a  

^a Centre de Maternite et de Neonatologie Tunis   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Acardius; Acephalus; Twin pregnancy; Twin reversed arterial perfusion sequence

Indexed keywords

DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT;

ABDOMEN; ACARDIUS; AGENESIS; ARM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIRTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; LIMB MALFORMATION; MALE; MATERNITY WARD; NEWBORN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STILLBIRTH; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX; TWINS; ULTRASOUND; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; AUTOPSY; DISEASES IN TWINS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL HEART; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POLYHYDRAMNIOS; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 5644231996     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080478     Document Type: Article

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