Open neutral tube defects: Immunocytochemical demonstration of neuroepithelial cells in amniotic fluid

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 143-144

  Greenebaum, Ellen ^a   Mansukhani, Mahesh M ^b   Heller, Debra S ^a   Timor Tristsch, Ilan ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

amniotic fluid cytology; immunocytochemistry; neural tube defects

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; AMNION FLUID CYTOLOGY; ARTICLE; FETUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEUROEPITHELIUM; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ENOLASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 0030615101     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199702)16:2<143::AID-DC9>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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