Prenatal diagnosis of central nervous system abnormalities: Diagnostic possibilities and limitations of fetal neurosonography

Genetic Counseling

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-11

  Witters, I ^b   Fryns, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Gynecology and Obstetrics   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MICROCEPHALY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0034104306     PISSN: 10158146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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