Two- and three-dimensional ultrasound demonstration of a giant epignathus [1]

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 407-409

  Chen, C P ^a   Shih, J C ^b   Huang, J K ^a   Chin, D T H ^a   Tzen, C Y ^a   Lin, Y H ^a   Wang, W ^a  

^a MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOGENETICS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EPIGNATHUS; FEMALE; FETAL TUMOR; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; KARYOTYPING; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOMA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PALATAL NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; TERATOMA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0038216577     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.70     Document Type: Letter

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