title: [Newborn twins with colour difference].
abstract: A 31-year-old woman, pregnant of a monochorionic diamniotic twins had an unremarkable pregnancy. After delivery, the infants showed a colour difference. Blood analysis revealed an anaemia-polycythaemia sequence, caused by arterio-venous anastomoses in the placenta. The diagnosis was 'twin anaemia polycythaemia sequence' an acute and atypical form of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis, afd. Gynaecologie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. a.b.hooker@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Angelo B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Hooker
authors.forename: Reinhard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000751:Anemia, Neonatal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D001159:Arterio-Arterial Fistula / Q000150:complications* / Q000196:embryology*; D005260:Female; D005330:Fetofetal Transfusion / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010920:Placenta / Q000098:blood supply*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D014430:Twins, Monozygotic