First-trimester sonographic detection of neurodeyelopmental abnormalities in some single-gene disorders

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 199-202

  Van Zalen Sprock, Rieteke M ^a   Van Vugt, John M G ^a   Van Geijn, Herman P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

First trimester; Neurodevelopmental abnormality; Prenatal diagnosis; Rhombencephalon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; JOUBERT SYNDROME; MECKEL SYNDROME; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALKER WARBURG SYNDROME;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SYNDROME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0029877170     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199603)16:3<199::AID-PD828>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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