Caudal dysgenesis in staged human embryos: Carnegie stages 16-23

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 115-127

  Padmanabhan, Rengasamy ^a   Naruse, Ichiro ^b   Shiota, Kohei ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caudal dysgenesis; Human embryos; Limb body wall defects; Morphological and histological study

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUDAL REGRESSION SYNDROME; EMBRYO; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; EMBRYO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; SPINE; SYNDROME;

EID: 0032708996     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19991119)87:2<115::AID-AJMG2>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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