Monoamniotic twin pregnancy discordant for lethal open cranial defect: Management dilemmas

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 578-582

  Sepulveda, Waldo ^a   Wong, Amy E ^a   Sandoval, Rodrigo ^b   Aiello, Horacio ^c   Otaño, Lucas ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b Hospital de Castro   (Chile)

^c HOSPITAL ITALIANO DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Anencephaly; Discordant anomaly; Encephalocele; Fetal surgery; Monochorionic twins; Open neural tube defect; Twin pregnancy; Umbilical cord entanglement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ILLEGAL ABORTION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SKULL DEFECT; TWIN DISCORDANCE; TWIN PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL CORD COMPLICATION;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; ADULT; ANENCEPHALY; DISEASES IN TWINS; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PRENATAL CARE; SKULL; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

CEPHALOCHORDATA;

EID: 79956276668     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2751     Document Type: Article

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