Prenatal diagnosis of Apert syndrome: Report of two cases

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1009-1013

  Skidmore, David L ^a   Pai, Aditya P ^b   Toi, Ants ^b   Steele, Leslie ^a   Chitayat, David ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac abnormality; Craniosynostosis; Fibroblast growth factor receptor; Skeletal dysplasia; Syndactyly

Indexed keywords

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; ADULT; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COUNSELING; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; EXOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PATHOLOGIST; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNDACTYLY;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLIA; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

TRIFOLIUM;

EID: 0346216851     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.744     Document Type: Article

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