Bilateral brachial amelia, facial clefts, encephalocele, orbital cyst and omphalocele: A recurrent fetal malformation pattern coming into focus

Clinical Dysmorphology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 171-174

  Froster, U G ^a   Briner, J ^b   Zimmermann, R ^a   Huch, R ^a   Huch, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

amelia; frontal encephalocele; omphalocele

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLEFT FACE; DYSOSTOSIS; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; LIMB DEFECT; MALFORMATION SYNDROME; OMPHALOCELE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; ARM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECTROMELIA; ENCEPHALOCELE; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FACE; FEMALE; FETUS; HERNIA, UMBILICAL; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; LEG; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0029949360     PISSN: 09628827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019605-199604000-00010     Document Type: Article

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