Prenatal diagnosis of 'true tail' with cartilage content?

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 226-229

  Noack, Frank ^a   Reusche, Erich ^a   Gembruch, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome; Fetus; Human tail; Omphalocele; Prenatal diagnosis; Pseudotail

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARTILAGE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; OMPHALOCELE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; TAIL;

CARTILAGE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; PREGNANCY; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0037626868     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070810     Document Type: Article

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