Association of undetectable unconjugated estriol on multiple marker screening with steroid sulfatase deficiency

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-48

  Jari, Shama D ^a,b   Fraer, Luanne M ^a   Hogge, W Allen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Maternal serum screening; Steroid sulfatase deficiency; Undetectable unconjugated estriol; X linked ichthyosis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ESTRIOL;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FETUS; FOLLOW UP; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; ICHTHYOSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; DOWN SYNDROME; ESTRIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERYL-SULFATASE; TRISOMY;

EID: 0345059345     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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