Expect the worse or hope for the best? Prenatal diagnosis of geleophysic dysplasia

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1067-1070

  Rennie, A C ^a   Stewart, G ^b   Whiteford, M ^a   Johnston, T ^c   Tolmie, J L ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MOTHER S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chondrodysplasia; Geleophysic dysplasia; Misdiagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CASE REPORT; CHONDRODYSPLASIA; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DWARFISM; DYSPLASIA; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GELEOPHYSIC DYSPLASIA; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SHORT STATURE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DWARFISM; FACIES; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYSOSOMAL STORAGE DISEASES; MALE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0030714164     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199711)17:11<1067::AID-PD180>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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