Prognostic implications of fetal echogenic bowel

Lancet

Volumn 347, Issue 8994, 1996, Pages 85-87

  Slotnick, Robert Nathan ^a   Abuhamad, Alfred Z ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; INTESTINE EXAMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TRISOMY 21;

EID: 0030028107     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)90210-X     Document Type: Article

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