American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 193, Issue 3, Supplement , Pages 1110-1116 , September 2005

Incidence and impact of perioperative complications in 175 fetoscopy-guided laser coagulations of chorionic plate anastomoses in fetofetal transfusion syndrome before 26 weeks of gestation

Received 1 March 2005 ,Revised 13 June 2005 ,Accepted 30 June 2005.

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 Presented at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, Reno, Nevada, February 7-12, 2005.

PII: S0002-9378(05)01050-1

doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2005.07.003

American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 193, Issue 3, Supplement , Pages 1110-1116 , September 2005