Fetus papyraceous: A case report of Kapkatet Sub-County Hospital, Kenya
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https://doi.org/10.53819/81018102t3019Abstract
Fetus papyraceous is a rare obstetric complication in multiple gestations, the incidence of which in case of twins is 1 in 12,500. It may be associated with maternal complication of disseminated intravascular coagulation and brain damage in the surviving co-twin. Fetus papyraceous can occur both in uniovular and binovular twin pregnancies. The study reports a case of binovular twin pregnancy with one twin fetus papyraceous and the other twin born preterm.
Keywords: Fetus papyraceous, uniovular, biovular
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