Selective reduction in twins and multiple pregnancies

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-21

  Antsaklis, Aris ^a   Anastasakis, Eleftherios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fetal reduction; multiple pregnancy; twins

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; FETUS HEART; FETUS KARYOTYPING; FETUS WASTAGE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TRIPLETS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SUCTION; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION; TWINS;

AMNIOCENTESIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY REDUCTION, MULTIFETAL; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78651375309     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2010.114     Document Type: Article

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