Steroid sulphatase deficiency is the major cause of extremely low oestriol production at midpregnancy: A urinary steroid assay for the discrimination of steroid sulphatase deficiency from other causes

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 789-800

  Glass, Ian A ^a   Lam, Russell C ^b   Chang, Tony ^b   Roitman, Esther ^b   Shapiro, Larry J ^a   Shackleton, Cedric H L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Oestriol; RXLI; Sulphatase deficiency; Triple marker screening

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIOL; ANDROSTERONE; ESTRIOL; ETIOCHOLANOLONE; PRASTERONE; PREGNANEDIOL; STERYL SULFATASE; TETRAHYDROCORTISOL; TETRAHYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ESTRIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STEROID URINE LEVEL; URINALYSIS;

ANDROSTENEDIOL; ANDROSTENOLS; ARYLSULFATASES; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; ESTRIOL; FEMALE; FETUS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANEDIOL; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; STEROIDS; STERYL-SULFATASE;

EID: 0031850052     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199808)18:8<789::AID-PD345>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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