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The Absence of One Umbilical Artery in Malformed MZ Twins1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2014
Summary
The authors studied the structure of the umbilical cord in a cephalothoracopagus and a holoacardius amorphus. In both cases they met with the absence of one umbilical artery. They discuss on the possible teratogenic influence of this umbilical anomaly, which appears in the acardius as a regular phenomenon, and, along with the velamentous insertion and with the vascular anastomoses bringing about the reverse blood circulation, constitutes the main cause of malformation.
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- Research Article
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- Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , October 1970 , pp. 567 - 575
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- Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1970
Footnotes
Lecture given at the 12th Congress of Morphology, Prague, on 16 October 1969.
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