Prenatal diagnosis of genetic syndromes may be facilitated by serendipitous findings at fetal blood sampling

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 834-837

  Lalatta, Faustina ^a   Salmona, Sarah ^b   Fogliani, Roberto ^b   Rizzuti, Tommaso ^a   Nicolini, Umberto ^b  

^a ICP   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fetal blood sampling; Genetic syndromes; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS KARYOTYPING; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; PALLISTER KILLIAN SYNDROME; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMITH LEMLI OPITZ SYNDROME;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; CHOLESTEROL; CHORIONIC VILLI SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SMITH-LEMLI-OPITZ SYNDROME; SYNDROME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0031822038     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199808)18:8<834::AID-PD340>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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