Early second-trimester diagnosis of monozygotic twins discordant for cystic hygroma colli and Turner syndrome [1]

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 352-353

  Chen, Chih Ping ^a,b   Chang, Tung Yao ^a   Chern, Schu Rern ^a   Town, Dai Dyi ^a   Pan, Chen Wen ^a   Lee, Meng Shan ^a   Wang, Wayseen ^a  

^a MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION CELL; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CHORION VILLUS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS HYDROPS; FETUS KARYOTYPING; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SKIN FIBROBLAST; TURNER SYNDROME; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; CHORIONIC VILLI SAMPLING; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; LYMPHANGIOMA, CYSTIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TURNER SYNDROME; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

HYDROPS;

EID: 0037393584     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.573     Document Type: Letter

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