Clinical significance of amniotic-fluid-cell culture failure

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 343-347

  Lam, Yung Hang ^a,c   Tang, Mary Hoi Yin ^a   Sin, Sai Yuen ^b   Ghosh, Arabinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b KWONG WAH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^c TSAN YUK HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Amniocentesis; Culture failure; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNIOTIC FLUID CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; MATERNAL AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0031968758     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199804)18:4<343::AID-PD273>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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