Concordance for bilateral congenital diaphragmatic hernia in a monozygotic dichorionic twin pair - First clinical report

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 106-109

  MacHado, A P ^a,b   Ramalho, C ^a   Portugal, R ^a   Brandao O ^a   Carvalho, B ^a   Carvalho, F ^a   Matias, A ^a   Montenegro, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL DE SÃO JOÃO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bilateral congenital diaphragmatic hernia; Monozygotic dichorionic twin pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; PREGNANCY; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 77950065208     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000279752     Document Type: Article

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