A STUDY OF SPONTANEOUSLY ABORTED TWINS
A STUDY OF SPONTANEOUSLY ABORTED TWINS
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DOI:
10.1002/tera.1420210202
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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POLAND, BJ
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作者:
LIVINGSTON, JE;POLAND, BJ
Pairs (53) of human twins were obtained during examination of 1939 spontaneously aborted complete embryos and fetuses. Rate of twinning in pregnancies which spontaneously aborted was about 1 in 35. The spontaneous twin abortions consisted of 25 sets of twin embryos, 26 sets of twin fetuses and 2 sets in which 1 was an embryo and 1 was a fetus. It was possible to determine the zygosity in 37 pairs. The ratio of monozygotic [MZ] to dizygotic was 17.5:1. About 88% of the twin embryos and 21% of the twin fetuses were abnormal. These abnormality rates were similar to those observed in the overall study of the abortuses. Data on spontaneously aborted twins were compared to data on liveborn twins. Twinning, particularly MZ twinning, occurs more frequently than thought, based on newborn data. Embryonic and fetal mortality is much higher in twins than in singletons.