Adult and two children with fetal methotrexate syndrome

Teratology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 51-55

  Bawle, E V ^a,b,c   Conard, J V ^a   Weiss, L ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTIVE AGENT; AMINOPTERIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FOLIC ACID ANTAGONIST; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL TERATOGENESIS; CHILD; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; FINGER MALFORMATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS; ADULT; AMINOPTERIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTELORISM; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MALE; METHOTREXATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; SYNDROME; TERATOGENS;

EID: 0031965519     PISSN: 00403709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9926(199802)57:2<51::AID-TERA2>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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