Pathologic Quiz Case: A 27-Week Female Fetus with Massive Macrocephaly and Generalized Anasarca

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 102-104

  Bhattacharya, Baishali ^a,c   Cochran, Elizabeth ^b   Loew, Jerome ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASARCA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL IMMATURE INTRACRANIAL TERATOMA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH OUTPUT HEART FAILURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MACROCEPHALY; NEWBORN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SKULL DISEASE; TERATOMA;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARDIAC OUTPUT, HIGH; EDEMA; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HEAD; HUMANS; SKULL; TERATOMA;

EID: 0346368242     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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