Detection of fetal cells present in transcervical samples

Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-10

  Adinolfi, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CELL; FETUS CONTROL; HUMAN; MALE; REVIEW; SAMPLE; SEX DETERMINATION; TROPHOBLAST; UTERINE CERVIX;

EID: 0029683984     PISSN: 09655395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0965539500001637     Document Type: Review

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