Embryoscopic and cytogenetic analysis of 233 missed abortions: Factors involved in the pathogenesis of developmental defects of early failed pregnancies

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1724-1732

  Philipp, T ^a   Philipp, K ^a   Reiner, A ^a   Beer, F ^a   Kalousek, D K ^b  

^a DANUBE HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chromosome abnormalities; Developmental defects; Missed abortion

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; ANAMNESIS; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; CHORION VILLUS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME G BAND; CLEFT LIP; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; CURETTAGE; CYTOGENETICS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO; EMBRYOPATHY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FACE MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; FETUS KARYOTYPING; FETUS MONITORING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC COUNSELING; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; LIMB MALFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROCEPHALY; MISSED ABORTION; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PATHOGENESIS; POLYDACTYLY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRENATAL CARE; RECURRENT ABORTION; RISK FACTOR; SPINA BIFIDA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYNDACTYLY; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION;

EID: 0042623887     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deg309     Document Type: Article

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