Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 5 , Pages 380-386 , May 2010

Placental characteristics of selective birth weight discordance in diamniotic-monochorionic twin gestations

  • M.E. De Paepe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Women and Infants Hospital, 101 Dudley Street, Providence, RI 02905, USA
    • Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Pathology, Women and Infants Hospital, 101 Dudley Street, Providence, RI 02905, USA. Tel.: +1 401 274 1122x1544; fax: +1 401 453 7681.
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  • S. Shapiro

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Women and Infants Hospital, 101 Dudley Street, Providence, RI 02905, USA
    • ,
  • L. Young

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Women and Infants Hospital, 101 Dudley Street, Providence, RI 02905, USA
    • ,
  • F.I. Luks

      Affiliations

    • Program in Fetal Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

,Accepted 24 February 2010.

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PII: S0143-4004(10)00097-4

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2010.02.018

Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 5 , Pages 380-386 , May 2010

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