Selective fetoscopic laser ablation in 100 consecutive pregnancies with severe twin-twin transfusion syndrome

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-27

  Cincotta, Robert B ^a   Gray, Peter H ^b   Gardener, Glenn ^a   Soong, Barbara ^a   Chan, Fung Yee ^a  

^a MATER MOTHERS HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Laser surgery; Monochorionic twins; Placental anastomoses; Twin twin transfusion syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FETUS MORTALITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE FETOSCOPIC LASER ABLATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; FETOSCOPY; HOSPITALIZATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN ANEMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SURVIVAL;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL MORTALITY; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; FETOSCOPY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LASER THERAPY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; QUEENSLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 66549106748     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2008.00942.x     Document Type: Article

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