Analysis of cystic hygroma, ascitic, and pleural fluids by conventional lymphocyte culture and fluorescent in situ hybridization

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1151-1157

  Gole, L A ^a   Anandakumar, C ^a   Bongso, A ^a   Chua, T M ^a   Wong, Y C ^a   Ratnam, S S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fetal hydrops; Interphase fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH); Prenatal diagnosis; Rapid cytogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HYDROPS; FETUS MALFORMATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ASCITIC FLUID; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; LYMPHANGIOMA, CYSTIC; LYMPHOCYTES; PLEURA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0031453341     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199712)17:12<1151::AID-PD208>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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