Blood chimerism in a dizygotic dichorionic pregnancy

Korean Journal of Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 521-524

  Jang, Ja Hyun ^a   Jung, Haiyoung ^a   Kim, Jong Hwa ^a   Park, Won Soon ^a   Kim, Sun Hee ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Blood chimerism; Dizygotic dichorionic twins; Vascular anastomosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; CASE REPORT; CHIMERA; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; MALE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TWINS;

ADULT; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; CHIMERISM; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; KARYOTYPING; MALE; PREGNANCY; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 78049293354     PISSN: 15986535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3343/kjlm.2010.30.5.521     Document Type: Article

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