Prenatal diagnosis of Apert syndrome with widely separated cranial sutures

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 254-256

  Lyu, Kuan Jiin ^a   Ko, Tsang Ming ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Apert syndrome; Craniosynostosis; Fibroblast growth factor receptor II gene; Prenatal diagnosis; Syndactyly

Indexed keywords

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CRANIAL SUTURE; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABORTION, THERAPEUTIC; ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLIA; ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CRANIAL SUTURES; DNA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0034124611     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(200003)20:3<254::AID-PD775>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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