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Aplasia cutis congenita and ‘vanishing twin’ caused by iatrogenic fetal reduction

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An infant boy was born at 33 weeks’ gestation via caesarean section due to premature rupture of the membranes. His mother was 31 years old and had conceived a bigeminal… Click to show full abstract

An infant boy was born at 33 weeks’ gestation via caesarean section due to premature rupture of the membranes. His mother was 31 years old and had conceived a bigeminal monochorionic biamniotic pregnancy. Due to megabladder malformation, the pregnancy was complicated by selective embryo reduction by laser cord coagulation of the second twin at 14 weeks, which led to a complete fetal resorption (‘vanishing twin: VT’). On clinical …

Keywords: reduction; cutis congenita; aplasia cutis; vanishing twin; twin caused; congenita vanishing

Journal Title: Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition
Year Published: 2018

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