Twin pregnancies complicated by a single malformed fetus: chorionicity, outcome and management

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 501-507

  Gedikbasi, Ali ^a   Akyol, Alpaslan ^a   Yildirim, Gokhan ^a   Ekiz, Ali ^a   Gul, Ahmet ^a   Ceylan, Yavuz ^a  

^a Istanbul Bakirkoy Maternity and Children Diseases Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Dichorionic; Expectant management; Intervention; Monochorionic; One malformed fetus; Outcome

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; INDOMETACIN; NIFEDIPINE;

ANENCEPHALUS; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BONE DYSPLASIA; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CLEFT LIP; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DICHORIONIC TWIN; ENCEPHALOMYELOCELE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOSPADIAS; INTERVENTION STUDY; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; MENINGOCELE; MONOCHORIONIC TWIN; OMPHALOCELE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINA BIFIDA; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; TRISOMY 21; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWINS; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VAGINA ATRESIA;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHORION; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 77958086959     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.13.5.501     Document Type: Article

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